It has been a beautiful Lent, and now Holy Week is just around the corner. Thanks be to God for a fruitful season of grace, and thanks be to all of you for your works of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving! This Wednesday we hold our annual Lenten Penance Service at 7pm in the church, with confessors from all parts of the planet (really!-priests from India, Mexico, Philippines, South America, Vietnam, and ... California). May God help us all to make a good confession before Easter. And then comes Holy Week, with the glorious Masses of Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday. Please pray for the forty or so adults and 40 or so youth who will be brought into the Church this Easter. And finally, I invite you to join me in the Modesto's annual Walk for Life on Good Friday, beginning at 8am. You can check our website for details on all of these great events. May you all have a blessed Holy Week.

Sincerely,

Fr. Joseph Illo, Pastor