Pastor's Weekly Message

Palm Sunday, 29 March 2026

My Beloved Fellow Saints-in-the-Making,

Greetings in Jesus Christ the Messiah and the Crucified!



We celebrate Sunday of the Passion of the Lord, also known as Palm Sunday, and, like Jesus, enter into the holiest of places. For Jesus, as for all Jews, this holiest of places is Jerusalem, where the Temple of the Lord and, therefore, the Presence of the Lord is. Have we not entered this holiest of places, our church, where Jesus, our crucified—and risen and glorified!—Lord truly is. And does not our Eucharistic Lord will to make a triumphal entry into our very being when we receive Him in the Most Blessed Sacrament?

As you come forward to receive the Eucharist today, may you wave the palm of praise and thanksgiving in your heart to receive Him Who is our very Life, and may you behold our crucified Lord’s utter love for you in giving His Life on the Cross for your salvation and the salvation of all.

With this Sunday, we enter into Passiontide. Let us commit to accompanying Jesus in His Suffering and Death. When most everyone else deserted Him, may you and I remain fully present to Him so that, in suffering on the Cross, He might receive the comfort of knowing that His Sacrifice for our salvation is not in vain but, oh! so immensely treasured.

We might wish Easter Sunday were here already. But as the Venerable Fulton J. Sheen—who will soon be beatified—reminds us, “There is no Easter Sunday without Good Friday.” I wholeheartedly encourage you to participate in the sacred Liturgies of the Triduum—The Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday; The Veneration of the Most Holy Cross on Good Friday; and The Easter Vigil—so that Jesus will see you as one hailing Him as King and Lord, as Christ and Savior both today with His triumphal entry into Jerusalem and in the days to come when He will triumph over the power of death by dying on the Cross.

Know of my prayers for you and yours during this holiest of weeks in our liturgical year.

God love you! I do.

Fr. Lewis

PS: I have the privilege of announcing to our parish family that Anne Marth and Michael Pfarr have been elected as this year’s Parish Trustees. I wish to thank all the nominees for their willingness to serve our parish in this role.