Lent 2026
We offer Stations of the Cross during Lent at 6:00 pm. Come join us as we walk with Mary and contemplate her pain as she watched her son endure the last hours of his earthly life. It is very powerful!
Our theme this year is "Open My Eyes Lord." When we are born, we cannot see. A baby's eyes work, but the brain doesn' yet know what to do with the information. At first, all is blurry and gray. Slowly, we come to perceive colors, and shapes and faces. The process of learning to see continues throughout our lives. Artists will tell you that learning to draw or paint is really a matter of learning to see because in truth, we don't see with our eyes, but with our mind and our heart. When the Apostles meet Jesus, they don't see Him as He truly is but in time, they learn to. Our path as disciples of Christ is the same: we must learn to see. The writer G.K. Chestertron noted that the eyes of a Buddhist saint are closed as if in sleep, but a Christian saint's eyes are wide and "frightfully alive." They are open so as to behold the beatific vision: "Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God," We pray that our own Lenten journey will cleanse our heart and mind so that we may learn to see and look upon the face of Jesus.
Our "Vatican III Players" as Fr. Jim has named them, will bring the Gospel Reading to life on the third, fourth and fifth Sundays of Lent: Third Sunday (March 8): Woman at the Well; Fourth Sunday (March 15) : The Man Born Blind; Fifth Sunday (March 22): The Raising of Lazarus. You will not want to miss them!
May all our eyes be opened ...