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Beloved Parishioners,

In this week Pastor’s Corner, my reflection is focused on Eastertide. What we easily forget is that the Church designed the liturgical calendar to do one major thing, namely, to make Christians live the life of Christ through time. The liturgical year is theologically and spiritually structured to help the Church remember, celebrate, relive, and interiorize the mysteries of salvation.

Beloved Parishioners,

I share with you a reflection on Pope Leo XIV's visit to Africa. On his third ever international journey since his election as the supreme Pontiff, from 13 April to 23 April 2026, His Holiness Pope Leo XIV, completed a historic 11-day apostolic journey to Africa across four nations: Algeria, Cameroon, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea.

Beloved Parishioners,

In this week of the Pastor’s Corner, my reflection is on some types of movement that our faith journey may require. This movement may not be that easy, but taking the courageous step to make the journey is itself an act of faith. The readiness to move into an unknown destination trusting only in God’s providence forms the core of my reflection.

Beloved Parishioners,

My reflection is centered on prayer and how baptism makes us special people consecrated to God. Have you ever considered that your baptism was not just a ceremony, but a consecration—a setting apart for something sacred? Today I wish to draw our hearts to this powerful truth, namely: that we are a people consecrated to prayer. And this consecration began the day we were plunged into the waters of Baptism.

Beloved Parishioners,

May the joy and peace of the risen Lord inundate our hearts and lighten up our ways! Since Easter we have been confronted with all kinds of war cries from different parts of the world that at times some of us tend to lose hope in the message of Easter that the risen Christ has come to revive our hope that Jesus is alive.

Beloved Parishioners,

We have every reason to be joyful today because the tomb that contained the body of Jesus courtesy of the goodwill and generosity of that rich man, Joseph of Arimathea, is empty! The stone was rolled away, the grave clothes were neatly folded and left behind, and the tomb stood empty — not because someone had taken Jesus’ body, but because He is risen! Death has lost its sting!

Beloved Parishioners,

The Paschal Mystery reveals how Christ’s suffering and resurrection reconcile humanity to God. By His death, He destroys sin and death; by His resurrection, He restores life and offers eternal hope (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 654). Historically, the Paschal Mystery connects Old Testament events with their fulfillment in Christ.

Beloved Parishioners,

As we know almsgiving stands as one of the three pillars of Lenten observance, alongside prayer and fasting, and is seen as an invitation to grow in solidarity with the poor and the marginalized in recognition that Christ himself identified with the poor.

Beloved Parishioners,

“Now let us all with one accord, In fellowship with ages past, Keep vigil with our heavenly Lord In His temptation and His fast.”

These opening lines of the ancient Lenten hymn Ex more docti mystico, traditionally attributed to Gregory the Great, immediately situate our Lenten journey within the communion of the Church across the centuries.