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Italian Memorial Mass, First Friday - 6:30 pm

Divine Mercy First Sunday of the Month after 12:00 pm Mass

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Fr. Giovanni Rizzo

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Dear Parishioners,

Christ is Risen! Alleluia! I don’t know about you but I have longed to say the “A” word again, I have longed to hear the bells ringing at Mass, I have longed for the season in which we profusely make use of the Holy Water! All these signs, as well as nature, tell us that light always prevail over the darkness that, after the gloominess of the winter months, here comes the radiance and cheerfulness of spring.

Most of all, this awesome feast tells us that sadness and death have not the last word in our life because the Word made flesh, Our Lord Jesus Christ, has conquered darkness and death and has brought us back to life and joy.

I often meditate on the experience of the disciples who had placed their entire life in the hands of this extraordinary individual they met one day, when they left everything to follow him. The last Passover they spent with Jesus in Jerusalem, his dreadful arrest and the mockery trial, his brutal Passion and death amidst the scorn and laughing of so many people he had benefited before: all this must have been devastating for those disciples. Yet that radiant morning when they saw Him risen, when He let himself be touched by them, when He accepted food from them to show them He was not a ghost… How indescribable their joy must have been!

This Jesus who stood now among them was not just a hero or a political liberator; He what not just a miracle-maker; He was not even “just” the awaited Messiah: He was God with us! And if God is with us, He has forgiven us (“Shalom! Peace!”), He loves us.

Dear brothers and sisters of St. Theresa’s, Jesus is still among us, He still forgives us and He still loves us immensely: this is what the Easter joy announces us.

I am grateful to have been given the opportunity to be with you at St. Theresa’s and to celebrate Easter with you. I think that, during this time that we have been together, we have come to know each other better and—can I say it?—to love each other more and more. I know I do love all of you in the Lord. Easter time is a perfect time to express all my gratitude to my brother priests, Fr. Roberto and to the Salesian Sisters who are precious gems of our Parish, to Deacon Joe and Deacon Michael, and to all the teachers of our outstanding school, to our workers and to all those who volunteer in so many ministries and in so many little and big tasks in the Parish (to mention all of you I would need 6 pages of the bulletin…). Like the disciples, may the Easter joy inflame your hearts during these 50 days of Easter and always.

God bless!
Fr. Giovanni