Let Us Give Thanks for Our Blessings
My Dear Friends,
My Easter prayer was one of gratitude. First of all, I thank God for allowing me to be here to celebrate with our wonderful parish the challenging Holy Week services. Many of our good members died during these past 12 months, and yet our loving God has allowed me and you another period of time to serve the Lord in our parish. I thank God for that blessing of life. Secondly, I thank God for the generous priests and deacon of our church who helped us to celebrate the complicated liturgies of Holy Week and Easter. We are blessed to have these dedicated priests in our parish, especially when we have fewer clergy to serve our people. Thirdly, I thank God for all those generous singers who prepared the glorious music, for those artists who decorated our church, for those ministers who served as lectors, Eucharistic ministers and servers. Last but certainly not least, I thank God for you, our loyal and generous members of St. John the Baptist Church on San Pablo Avenue. We have so much to be grateful for and to praise our wonderful Jesus who looks lovingly on this little Catholic Church in El Cerrito. I hope you join me in thanking God.
May the risen Jesus continue to look lovingly on our parish and shower down His blessings and graces on each family.
Peace,
Fr. John Maxwell
