Holy Week

Feast of the Holy Family Homily

By Fr. Jeff | 12/31/2012

Holy Family, Year C  1 Samuel 1:20-22, 24-8 1 John 3:1-2, 21-24 Luke 2:41-52 December 30, 2012 Christmas is not over.  Christmas is too important to be a single day.  We celebrate Christmas as a season from Christmas Day till…

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Chrism Mass

By Fr. Jeff | 04/04/2012

I attended our Chrism Mass last night at the Cathedral.  For anyone who is unfamiliar with the Chrism Mass, it is a diocesan celebration that always occurs during Holy Week.  It is a Mass so there is the celebration of…

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Holy Week

By Fr. Jeff | 03/31/2012

Here is the article I wrote for the cover of today’s (Passion Sunday) Bulletin The Most Important Time of the Year Today is Passion Sunday, aka Palm Sunday.  These two names identify what we do today.  We begin Mass with…

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The Triduum is Upon Us

By Fr. Jeff | 04/22/2011

This is the holiest time of the year.  Last night (Thursday), we celebrated the Institution of the Eucharist and the Washing of the Feet.  Today is Good Friday, the day which we celebrate the Crucifixion of Jesus.  Yes, we celebrate…

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Jesus’ Hour Draws Near

By Fr. Jeff | 04/16/2011

This weekend we begin Holy Week.  Easter is the highest day of the year for it is the day we celebrate the Resurrection.  Yet, to properly understand Easter, we cannot just look at the Resurrection itself.  We must look at…

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Easter – Jesus Christ is Risen Today

By Fr. Jeff | 04/04/2010

Today we celebrate Easter!  It is a day of Great Joy!  Jesus Savior, our Lord and Savior has risen! It had appeared that Jesus was defeated by his enemies who had him arrested, “tried”, and crucified on a Cross but…

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Good Friday 2010

By Fr. Jeff | 04/02/2010

Today we celebrate the death of Jesus Christ.  Yes, we celebrate his death.  We celebrate it because Jesus’ death pays the price for our sins and wins for us our redemption.  It is also a sign for us of God’s…

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Holy Thursday

By Fr. Jeff | 04/01/2010

The readings for the Mass of the Lord’s Supper celebrated in the evening on Holy Thursday are very appropriate to the occasion. The first reading (Exodus 12:1-8, 11-14) recalls the original Passover event when God lead the Israelites out of Egypt by the…

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Holy Week

By Fr. Jeff | 03/31/2010

We are in the midst of the holiest time of year.  This Sunday (March 28th) we celebrated Palm Sunday.  We generally remember it as Palm Sunday because of the blessing of the Palms at the beginning of the Mass.  The…

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