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Happy Easter!

Dear Parish Family, HAPPY EASTER to you and yours!  This Divine Mercy Sunday is the last day of the “Easter Octave,” which is eight straight days of solemnities to celebrate the kickoff of the Easter season.  We had a beautiful Easter Triduum that saw 25 people receive at least one of the sacraments of initiation … Continued

Welcome Home!

This past weekend was AMAZING!  If you weren’t able to be with us for the Easter Vigil on Saturday, we welcomed home more than 20 of our brothers and sisters in faith.  Many of them received all of the Sacraments of Initiation: Baptism, Confirmation, and First Communion; several received various of those depending on their … Continued

His mercy endures forever.

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

Happy Easter

EASTER; every year is an invitation for us to rise from our periodical decay and death to taste the transformed grandeur of the immortal human nature. Exult. We begin the Easter celebration with the singing of the exultet. The lit paschal candle reminds us of Christ’s presence amidst us. All years, seasons and times belong … Continued

Happy Easter

Dear Parishioners & Guests, The great celebration of Holy Week and the Easter Triduum often brings visitors to our parish.  If you are one of them, I extend to you a warm welcome on behalf of all the parishioners of St. John, “the Mother Church of Jackson.”  For over 150 years, the steeples of this church … Continued