FROM THE DESK OF THE PASTOR
January 28, 2026
Dear friends in Christ,
This weekend, at the Saturday 5 PM Mass at St Jude, we welcome Archbishop Etienne to confer the Sacrament of Confirmation. With great joy, we will celebrate the Confirmation of youth and adult members of our parish family of St. Anthony, Holy Innocents, and St. Jude. They will receive this special outpouring of the Holy Spirit, which confirms and strengthens the grace of their Baptism. We celebrate this Sacrament, which, like a new Pentecost, bestows wonderful gifts and charisms. It will equip our confirmandi to proclaim the mighty deeds of God in the world. Our Church needs these gifts and needs our newly confirmed to use them to share the Gospel and build up the community of faith. I invite us to pray for our confirmandi, that these gifts of the Holy Spirit will bear fruit in their lives and in the life of our Church.
Youth
Diego Hernandez Aguilar
Adrian Alexander
Aleha Arjon
Brigid Babcock
Emma Beard
Haley Beninupandian
Joseph Cross
Margaret Cross
Elena Cruz
Caleb Darling
Aaron D'sa
Keyla Farias
Ana Victoria Gabaldon Cisneros
Flor Gapi-Zizumbo
Juan Gapi-Zizumbo
Alexis Garcia
Luz Garcia
Jeronimo Gereda Galvis
Jacqueline Guzman
Joselyn Guzman Lopez
Langdon Hamilton
Ava Haynes
Emily Haynes
Omar Hernandez
Brady Holt
Ayra Jacob
Infanta Kumar
Joo Lee
Liam Lezama
Sofia Carrillo Lopez
Aurora Carrillo Lopez
Lily Lopez
Leslie Madriz
Erick Martinez Ramirez
Rafael Mendonca
Belen Mendoza Molina
Aaron Hernandez Mendoza
Emma Miller
Owen Miller
Arturo Mogollan
Sofia Mogollan
Lucas Orbigo
Coraline Padilla
Jotham Rathinakumar
Kennedy Roberts
Ella Robinson
Joana Saldana Pulido
Olivia Semencato
Jose Sepulveda
Santiago Sepulveda
Andrea Serrano
Sofia Serrano
Tori Shafer
Parker Skinner
Luke Stanislaus
Alfredo Toledo
Noe Toledo
Allison Toledo
Yandel Torres
Colin Trenkamp
Adults
Paul O'Connor
Monica Leisen
Rita Moreno
Please join me in congratulating them and praying for them.
Some years ago, an Orthodox bishop, Patriarch Ignatius, when he was Metropolitan of Latakia, gave an address at the Assembly of the World Council of Churches. In it, he spoke of the Holy Spirit in a striking and memorable way:
Without the Holy Spirit, God is far away.
Christ stays in the past,
The Gospel is simply an organization,
Authority is a matter of propaganda,
The Liturgy is no more than an evolution,
Christian loving a slave mentality.
But in the Holy Spirit
The cosmos is resurrected and grows with the
birth pangs of the kingdom.
The Risen Christ is there,
The Gospel is the power of life,
The Church shows forth the life of the Trinity,
Authority is a liberating science,
Mission is a Pentecost,
The Liturgy is both renewal and anticipation,
Human action is deified.
May the Holy Spirit help us, by his grace, to do the work of the Lord and spread the good news of the Lord.
Blessings on your week!
Fr. Johnson
