Holy Saturday   – 8:00 P.M. Liturgy of the Easter Vigil

Easter Sunday  –  7:00 A.M. Morning Prayer
Celebration of the Eucharist:
Church: 7:30 A.M., 9:00 A.M., 10:30 A.M. and 12 Noon
School Sports Center:  10:40 A.M. and 12:10 P.M.

POPE FRANCIS’ EASTER VIGIL HOMILY

Excerpts:

Like Jesus’ disciples who stood “speechless before the Cross,” incapable of “speaking out on behalf of their Master”, we often stand “speechless in the face of situations we cannot control.”

“Trust and believe that God ‘happens’ in every situation and in every person.”

“’He is not here… he is risen!’ This is the message that sustains our hope and turns it into concrete gestures of charity. How greatly we need to let our frailty be anointed by this experience! How greatly we need to let our faith be revived! How greatly we need our myopic horizons to be challenged and renewed by this message! Christ is risen, and with him, he makes our hope and creativity rise so that we can face our present problems in the knowledge that we are not alone.”

“To celebrate Easter is to believe once more that God constantly breaks into our personal histories, challenging our ‘conventions,’ those fixed ways of thinking and acting that end up paralyzing us.”

“Do we want to share in this message of Life, or do we prefer to continue standing speechless before events as they happen?”

Click here to read the full text of the Pope’s homily.