Ending Our Lenten Journey With the Sermon on the Mount

Dear Friends,

We will soon reach the end of our Lenten journey. Our theme this Lent has been "Lord, renew and transform your people." To help you to experience this renewal and transformation, we ask that you read and meditate on Chapters 5, 6 and 7 of the Gospel of Matthew. These chapters comprise the Sermon on the Mount. Chapter 5 contains the Beatitudes.

Something in those three chapters is certain to speak to you as you continue your desert journey. It might be something you wish to attain in your spiritual life; or it may be something you wish to offer to God as your gift of renewal or resurrection. All will be precious in the sight of our God.

The word or phrase or thought you select is what you want to write on a small piece of paper. On Good Friday, when you come up to venerate the Cross, there will be a basket or bowl near the altar or the cross where you can place that piece of paper.

We hope that you will be present at as many of our Holy Week services as possible. We gather together not only as a Parish Family; but also, as God's Family.

May the graces of Holy Week be yours...

Your Liturgy Committee


~ Sermon of the Beatitudes by James J. J. Tissot
~ Image by Free Christ Images