Weekly Pastor's Corner
04/25/26-04/26/26
As we continue to urge your generous response to the Catholic Appeal, we will let you know that the Executive Branch of the current US Administration has cut 11 million dollars designated for Miami Catholic Charities to shelter unaccompanied minors in the wake of the papal rebuke of the Administration’s Just War analysis of our war in Iran. Please know that the Catholic Church in Massachusetts is the second largest Social Service contributor to those in need beyond the State itself. We beg you to consider a generous gift to the Archdiocesan Catholic Appeal to offset such a cutback. Please help those who have less than we do.
This week is proclaimed a selection from the Gospel of John in which Jesus offers a message of hope in announcing Himself as the gatekeeper for us the sheep. We who know His voice and take seriously the promise of salvation made in Him know that Jesus walks ahead of us, offering Himself as the initial and primary sacrifice made for our salvation. By His Cross, we have been healed and offered forgiveness for our sins. By His Resurrection we are offere d the hope of being raised after death. By His gift of such we have life and have it more abundantly. Jesus the Good Shepherd gives us His life for good example of how to live in commitment to community, He dies so that we might
understand suffering and He is raised so that we will have the gift of eternal life.
Thanks, and have great week!
God Bless,
Fr. Joe
