Dear Parish Family, While Lent may be 40 days, our celebration of the Easter season lasts 50 days from the first Sunday of Easter all the way to the Solemnity of Pentecost Sunday a full seven weeks later! What a Holy Week! Despite the diminished numbers due to a concurrent spring break, what a … Continued
After a tremendous response to our Faith Formation Fridays during Lent, we’re following up with a three-week series vocing the topics of Divine Revelation, the Bible, and the Holy Spirit! Whether you’re looking to learn more, or contribute your experience to the discussion, please join us! 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. @ St. John Parish Center … Continued
Pope John Paul II established the Sunday after Easter as Divine Mercy Sunday. The Divine Mercy, of course, is the unconditional love of God seen from the point of view of the sinner. It is the fidelity of the love of God. Divine Mercy Sunday can be seen as the convergence of all the mysteries … Continued
On this Easter day, we here in Jackson proclaim with the Church all throughout the world that sin and hatred, death and division, violence and vitriol do NOT have the final say! The Easter message is that, in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, God has conquered all of these through the eternally greater power of … Continued
Christ the Lord is Risen! Alleluia! Alleluia. “And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins” (1 Corinthians 15: 14, 17)