Christ Is Risen!

Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death and upon the tombs He is bestowing life!

Holy week never seems to give us enough time to truly comprehend all that we witness. On Palm Sunday, no sooner do we greet the Messiah on His entrance into Jerusalem, than we cry out "Crucify Him! Crucify Him!" There is little time between the curtain of darkness that overcame the world with the death of Christ, and the lighting of the Paschal candle at the Easter vigil.
Mercifully, the Church gives us an octave for the Resurrection, and 50 days of the festal season of Paschaltide to contemplate the living, resurrected, Christ.

This year's Paschaltide is particularly celebratory as we will receive a new priest. God willing, Deacon Richard will be ordained on the 100th anniversary of the canonization of Saint Therese of Lisieux, in Philadelphia, considered by many to be the birthplace of devotion to Saint Therese in the United States.

Join us in prayer that God's will be done in the Hermitage of Saint Joseph and that we will be docile to the voice of the Holy Spirit for the good of the Church and salvation of souls, for Deacon Richard's ordination to the priesthood, for the peaceful repose of the soul of Pope Francis, and the election of a new and holy vicar of Christ to be a wise and faithful shepherd to guide the Church through rough waters.