We've sat with the Savior at table as He celebrated His last supper with His Disciples and washed their feet. We see ourselves at Supper with Him at each Eucharist and realize that He is offering us His Body and Blood as food for our life's journey and reminding us that we must wash each other's feet and be willing to be servant to all. We've walked with Him as He carried His cross to Cavalry. We watched as He was nailed to it and in great pain suffered and died. We pledged that we would carry our daily crosses of hurt and disappointment in union with Him and imitate His love and compassion even as He died saying, "Father, forgive them. They do not know what they do." We struggle to forgive others with that same compassion with the hope that they do not know the harm and damage they do to us and those around them. We pledge to live lives of unselfishness and generosity, following our Lord's example. We have gone into the tomb with Christ, realizing the darkness and death of sin that can consume our lives. We held tight to the Body of Christ as He came out of the tomb alive and radiant with a glory beyond our imagining. We have shouted with great joy the exclamation of the His disciples, "He is risen!" at the Easter celebration. For 50 days we continue to savor the almost unthinkable joy of not only knowing that He is risen but now lives and that we have seen Him in faith and know Him in the deepest recesses of our hearts.

I want to let you all know the joy I have in being privileged to share with you each Sunday the celebration of the Lord's suffering, dying and rising. In the ancient Church each Sunday was considered a 'Little Easter'. Your love and support continue to make my Priesthood never a job but a wonderful adventure. No day is the same as the previous one, and so often what I had planned for the day rarely comes to pass. But that's how it is in a family, isn't it?! I rise each morning with Bridget [our parish dog] at my side and thank God for another day of being part of a wonderful family who struggle to serve our Risen Savior with all our hearts, all our minds and all our strength. Our life here can't get any better than that!!!!

May the peace and joy of easter
Be with us always.

Happiest of easters!