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Resurrection / Easter Sunday, April 5, 2026
By Pastor Albert Starr Jr. on April 2, 2026Many of us wonder what it must have been like to come face to face with an empty tomb that first morning of the Resurrection. For these women in our gospel text today, "...afraid, yet filled with joy" is a pretty good description. There is only so much of an
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Good Friday, April 3, 2026 – 6:00pm
By Pastor Albert Starr Jr. on April 2, 2026Good Friday is the second movement of the Three Days (the Triduum), when the Church gathers to remember the suffering and death of Jesus Christ. Liturgy centers on the reading of the Passion, extended prayer for the world, and contemplation of the mystery of the Cross. We enter and depart in silence,
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Sunday of the Passion, Palm Sunday, March 29, 2026
on March 31, 2026The Gospel text for this Passion Sunday, which became more commonly known as "Palm Sunday", tells the story from the time the plot is put in place that led to Jesus being arrested right up to his death on the cross and his body secured in a borrowed tomb. This
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Fifth Sunday in Lent
By Pastor Albert Starr Jr. on March 19, 2026Again, the word "Defiant" is appropriate for describing the love Jesus carries for his friend Lazarus and really for the Love Jesus carries for all of us. It is a defiant love that goes beyond the boundaries and expectations of customs and traditions and even long held beliefs about what