My best wishes and prayers are with our children, who received Our Lord for the first time in Holy Communion last Sunday, April 21 at 11:30 a.m. Mass.

The comparison of the Lord to a good shepherd comforts and encourages us.

The Risen Lord remains with us in Word and Sacrament Luke 24:35: “Then they told what happened on the road, and how he was known to them in the breaking of the bread.”

Saint John Paul II left behind so many magisterial documents and so many signs of profound holiness, that he is called “John Paul the Great,” a unique title given only to a few popes down through the centuries. Saint John XXIII reminds us to humbly, obediently, and faithfully commit ourselves to the Church so that the face of the earth may be renewed.