- Thomastown Parish

Published on March 28, 2025

Next Friday is the First Friday of April. Those who are unable to come to Church will receive Communion at home. If not on our ‘regular’ list and wishing to receive the Sacrament, please contact the Office or Fr. Dan.

Reconciliation: St. Paul wrote ‘Be reconciled to God’. Lent is a valued time to ‘give up sin’ and be faithful to the Gospel’. Until Easter we will have the Sacrament of Reconciliation for those who wish to celebrate it and have some time to talk with the priest on Saturdays at 5pm. Next Saturday we will incorporate the Sacrament into our Saturday evening Mass.

Reflection

“This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.” Easter is the great celebration of victory of life over death.

Ours is an Easter religion. We do not deny or turn away from the evils that surround us: the wars that have killed some 100 million people in our (last) century; the poverty that grips more than half of the human race; the hunger that kills millions every year and ruins the lives of millions more; the discrimination that divides the human family into contending parties.

We do not deny these miseries, but we refuse to surrender to their power because of our faith in the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Suffering will be vindicated; death will be overcome; a new life will arise: that is the Easter message of the paschal mystery.
“Let us feast with joy in the Lord.” Just as Christ passed through death to resurrection, so too will the world pass through its suffering to the glory of a new life.
There is no room for despair: our Easter faith tells us that God will “raise us up and renew our lives.”
This is the ‘day which the Lord has made.’ Alleluia! Take fresh hope, brothers and sisters of the whole world! With Christ our Passover everything is possible! Christ goes forward in our future!

Pope John Paul II