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Text Box: Christ is risen. He is truly risen! A blessed and happy Easter season to you all! As you know, we celebrate Our Lord’s resurrection from Easter Sunday until the feast of Pentecost. Easter is the most important and solemn feast on the Church’s liturgical calendar. In fact, each Sunday is a celebration of the resurrection of Jesus. We observe Sunday as the Sabbath because Jesus rose from the dead on Sunday-the first day of the week. In preparation for the celebration of this most important day we spent the forty days of Lent fasting, praying and giving alms to the poor. The three days or the Triduum also helped us to enter into the full meaning of our Easter celebration by commemorating the Last Supper when Our Lord gave us the Eucharist and the Priesthood; His sacrificial death for us on the cross, and His triumphant resurrection.

Text Box: As part of our preparations for this special season, I went to speak to some of our children in the school. The first grade had a pre-Easter party and had a contest to see who could stick the most cotton balls to a person with tape on them. The cotton balls represented sin and the person represented Jesus who takes away our sin. This was a wonderful opportunity to speak to them about how Jesus took away our sins by dying on the cross and then rising again on Easter, especially since next year they will prepare to receive the Sacraments of Confession and Holy Communion. I went to speak to the fourth grade classes about the Triduum and Pope Benedict’s upcoming trip to the United States. They had many, many wonderful questions about those topics and more, and earlier I

Text Box: spoke to the sixth grade classes about the life of the Church during the 1920-30’s. We spoke about the Church here in Mobile and our bishop at that time-Bishop Toolen and Pope Pius XI and Pope Pius XII. I think the thing that amazed them the most was the fact that the Mass was said entirely in Latin. I really enjoy the opportunity to go to the school and share our faith with the children, and they often ask the most interesting questions. May you have a blessed Easter season and may God bless you all.

April 2008

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Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam

Thanks to your support, we raised more than $5,000 for scholarships in memory of the children of our parish who have passed away. Special thanks to Erin Cooper and all of the volunteers who helped organize and staff the fish fries and crawfish boil; Robin Barnett and the Mid Day Café staff for providing the fabulous food; DIP Seafood for the 650 pounds of crawfish; Greg Vetter, Jonathon and the rest of the maintenance staff for the monumental effort of set-up and clean-up. This parish-wide effort is a wonderful example of what we can accomplish when we all work together!