In this time of pandemic, our bishop has granted the possibility of general absolution during Masses at Lent, since there will be no communal penance services. Our preparation for Easter can and should be also a spiritual preparation. I invite our believers to get prepared for General Absolution by meditating on the wonderful text of the formulas…

We will not have a penance service during Lent this year. Fr. Gerard offers you this online Penance Service prepared and given by his Eudist brother Fr. Ronald Bagley, CJM, pastor of St. Patrick in Carlsbad. 

Reconciliation on the Patio of the Bells from 3:00-3:45pm will begin on Saturday, February 27th. The holy season of Lent opens before us. This weekend’s Gospel (Feb. 20) reminds us that the Spirit drove Jesus into the desert for forty days. We too are sent into the desert of repentance to search our hearts, hoping to…