This Friday is the First Friday of April.     Masses will be at 8:00 a.m. and 12:05 p.m.

Because of the Religious Education Congress there will be NO Confessions this Thursday.

One and all are encouraged to fully participate in the current United States Census.   It is a matter of record that the 1990 Census was grossly undercounted.    As a result, California lost out on millions of tax dollars for roads and other federal projects and funding.   We also lost much needed funding to use for the underprivileged living here in our State.

Please return your questionnaire as soon as possible, even if you got a long form.

The Fourth Sunday of Lent marks the mid-point of this Great Season.     It has the Latin name: "Laetare" [in English "Rejoice"] Sunday.     As a symbol of it being the mid-point of Lent, Rose vestments are worn; another mid-point:  between purple and white.

Lenten Year "B" Readings:    This week the Readings stress our need for repentance and forgiveness.   While God had remained faithful to His Promises, we have not always been faithful to our Baptismal Promises.     The first Reading from the Second Chronicles shows that sin always has painful consequences.    That Reading also reminds us that God's wrath is accompanied by His mercy.    The second Reading from St. Paul's Letter to the Ephesians tells of God's greatest act of mercy, the Salvific Passion, Death, Resurrection, Ascension and Glorification of Christ Jesus.     The Gospel Reading reminds us that it was out of love that God sent His Only-Begotten Son, Jesus, to save us.    We are asked to respond to God's gracious Gift of His Son by removing the darkness of sin from our lives so as to do the works of the light.

Lenten Year "A" Readings:   For those attending a Second Scrutiny Mass today, the Readings come from Year "A".     These Readings today focus on the symbol of light.   With Christ as our Light, we are able to see aright, as God sees into the heart in the First Book Of Samuel.     In Baptism, we share in the divine life and so are called to live in the light "which produces every kind of goodness and righteousness and truth" (Ephesians 5:9).    What is more, we are called to examine our lives in the light of Christ and root out all that is sinful.

The Second Scrutiny celebrated today touches on the Jubilee Themes of Evangelization and the Power of God extending throughout the world.     

For those attending the Second Scrutiny Mass today, this Scrutiny focuses on the need for removing all obstacles from seeing the truth.

Landen Hamilton  Corey Hill
Hunter Hill     Kaylan Hill
Blake Windrum