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Loving Christ, Loving Others


We are a welcoming Catholic community called by God to live out the message of Christ in love and service to all people. Our parish mission is:



To proclaim the Gospel of Christ to our local community in word, deed, and truth.

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The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ


You Are What You Eat


In John’s Gospel, Jesus gives a long discourse on the Bread of Life. The first part talks of bread as a sign of God’s loving care for the people. Like the manna in the desert, Jesus represents God caring for the people in a new way. But the part we hear in today’s Gospel is more specific. He says the bread he will give is his flesh. The leaders of the Jews don’t understand. Hopefully, we can do better.


In the pagan world at the time of Christ and before, a sacrifice was also a meal. An animal was ritually killed and burnt (i.e., cooked) to be shared at a meal with the people. The sacrifice was a gift to the god(s) that joined the people to their deity and also to each other. So Jesus used that understanding of sacrifice to explain his gift of self. He would die on the cross as a sacrifice to the Father and we would share in the meal by consuming bread and wine, which are his Body and Blood. That meal is shared today in the Eucharist.


Better than the pagan sacrifice, the Eucharist unites us with God because Jesus is both human and divine. His humanity allowed him to represent us to the Father, as a lawyer represents a client to the court. Jesus’ divinity allowed his sacrifice to be worthy of the Father, as no merely human gift could be. So giving his life on the cross was the best and only way that he could offer a true sacrifice to the Father.


The Eucharist also unites us to one another. We share this meal with other Christians as a sign of our common faith. Christ who gave himself to the Father on the cross also gives himself to us in the Eucharist. And because the food we share is the Body and Blood of Christ, we in a sense become what we eat. So we are all members of the Body of Christ. We show this by our love, by sharing our faith, by forgiving each other, and by our service to each other. If we believe that Jesus is divine, we must believe his word that the Eucharist is truly his Body and Blood, given for us.

Tom Schmidt


El Santísimo Cuerpo y la Sangre de Cristo

Uno se convierte en lo que come


En el Evangelio de Juan, Jesús da un largo discurso sobre el Pan de Vida. La primera parte habla del pan como un signo del cuidado amoroso de Dios por su pueblo. Como el maná en el desierto, Jesús representa a Dios cuidando a su pueblo de una nueva forma. Pero la parte que escuchamos en el Evangelio de hoy es más específica. Dice que el pan que dará es su carne. Los líderes de los judíos no entienden. Ojalá nosotros podamos entenderlo mejor.


En el mundo pagano de la época de Cristo y anteriormente, un sacrificio era también una comida. Se mataba y quemaba ritualmente a un animal (es decir, se cocinaba) para compartirlo durante una comida con el pueblo. El sacrificio era un regalo al dios (o los dioses) que unía al pueblo con su deidad y también los unía entre sí. Así que Jesús utilizó ese entendimiento del sacrificio para explicar el don de sí mismo. Él moriría en la cruz como sacrificio al Padre y nosotros compartiríamos la comida consumiendo pan y vino, que son su Cuerpo y Sangre. Esa comida se comparte hoy en la Eucaristía.


Mejor que el sacrificio pagano, la Eucaristía nos une con Dios porque Jesús es a la vez humano y divino. Su humanidad le permitió representarnos ante el Padre, como un abogado representa a un cliente ante el tribunal. La divinidad de Jesús permitió que su sacrificio fuera digno del Padre, como ningún don meramente humano podría ser. Así que dar su vida en la cruz era la mejor y única forma en que podía ofrecer un verdadero sacrificio al Padre.


La Eucaristía también nos une unos a otros. Compartimos esta comida con otros cristianos como signo de nuestra fe común. Cristo, que se entregó al Padre en la cruz, se entrega también a nosotros en la Eucaristía. Y debido a que la comida que compartimos es el Cuerpo y la Sangre de Cristo, en cierto sentido nos convertimos en lo que comemos. Así que todos somos miembros del Cuerpo de Cristo. Demostramos esto a través del amor, al compartir la fe, al perdonarnos unos a otros y con nuestro servicio mutuo. Si creemos que Jesús es divino, debemos creer en su palabra de que la Eucaristía es verdaderamente su Cuerpo y Sangre, entregado por nosotros.

Por Tom Schmidt




First Communion Class 2026.

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Only love makes way for unity, which is the fruit of God’s action. For a Christian, having enemies is forbidden. We must love all people, not just those who think like me, or practice the same faith as me. The important thing here is to ask myself what makes me the master of my heart. Or even better, what allows the Lord to be the master of my heart? Is it love or hatred? If, despite wanting to forgive, I cannot do it because I have been a victim of terror or hatred, then I need to ask that question: Who is the master of my heart? Love offers something new to us: to include the enemy, so that it is not hate or revenge that has the last word. In the reign of the Holy Spirit, evil is never the end.

MASS TIMES

Monday - 9:00 am at St. Henry Chapel - Convent

Tuesday - 10:30 am at Catholic Center for Charismatic Renewal 

Wednesday - 9:00 am at St. Henry Chapel - Convent

Thursday - 9:00 am at St. Henry Chapel - Convent

Friday - 11:00 am at Catholic Center for Charismatic Renewal 

Saturday - 4:30 pm English

Sunday - 8:30 am Spanish

                 11:00 am English 

Holy Days of Obligation - 6 pm


Sacrament of Reconciliation:

Saturday - 3:30 pm-4:20 pm


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