Message from Fr. Rick

Sixth Sunday of Easter
The promise of the Advocate
Before His Ascension into heaven Jesus promises His Apostles an Advocate – The Holy Spirit “Whom the Father will send in my name”

Especially after the Resurrection the thought of Jesus leaving them must have been a terrifying thought.  Without Jesus, how could the Apostles go on to do what Jesus wanted them to do ... ?  So Jesus in His compassion for His Apostles, and for us, assures us, He will not abandon us in fact He will send us from the Father an Advocate The Holy Spirit in fact the third person of the Blessed Trinity.

“Who has spoken through the prophets” but now is sent forth from the Father in the name of the Son “to teach you everything and remind you of all that I told you”

So fortified by the presence of this Divine Paraclete the Church continues the great work of proclaiming the Good News of salvation!

Fr. Rick
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Fifth Sunday of Easter
“I make all things new”
The world, that is, those forces both natural and supernatural opposed to God and His work, tell us endlessly that this world is doomed, that it is all hopeless the Pandemic, climate change, the myth of over population, poverty, chaos and the undeniable horrors of war and a thousand other ills that afflict this world all point, they tell us to the catastrophe that is our life and destiny of our planet.

         Don’t believe it, not for a nanosecond!  Instead, the Church the Mystical Body of Christ in this world, boldly proclaims
“I make all things new”
New, fresh, a springtime of the spirit.  Death, Pope Francis reminds us does not have the last word.

We are blessed to live in this beautiful part of the world, now at this time of the year we see signs of new, vibrant life all around us but the truth expressed in those wonderful words “I make all things new” is always true no matter what season it is.

In the midst of a culture that increasingly glorifies death the Church proclaims the perennial spring brought into being by unconfinable power of the Resurrection!

Fr. Rick

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