The Together in Mission campaign is an opportunity for people across the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to join – as one united family. Thousands of men and women like you make a sustainable monthly commitment because they believe power of the sacraments and the opportunities afforded with an outstanding Catholic education. Will you join our ministry in this 30th year? Will you continue to shine His light? And if you have never given, will you pledge $50 per month?

Join LA Catholics on a pilgrimage to honor Our Lady of Guadalupe. Come on your own or join a local parish pilgrim group. All pilgrims are invited to a special Mass celebrated by Archbishop Gomez on Saturday, July 8 at 11:00AM at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Over 150 people are already confirmed.

Jesus said: "I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. A hired man, who is not a shepherd and whose sheep are not his own, sees a wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away, and the wolf catches and scatters them. This is because he works for pay and has no concern for the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and I know mine and mine know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I will lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. These also I must lead, and they will hear my voice, and there will be one flock, one shepherd. This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own. I have power to lay it down, and power to take it up again. This command I have received from my Father."

Scripture: Luke 24:13-35 We often describe our life as a journey. The Benedictine tradition speaks of a shared journey on the road. We speak of Christ on that journey with us, bringing us all together to everlasting life. The Gospel of Luke retells the familiar story of two of Jesus’ disciples on their journey to the village of Emmaus.

Calling all catechists, Catholic school teachers, youth ministers, evangelizers, RCIA coordinators, and anyone who hands on the faith to others!

Join USCCB in asking your member of Congress to protect women and girls in sports today! Consistent with the Church’s clear teaching on the equality of men and women and the truth that we are created male and female, this bill would promote fairness and safety for women and girls by ensuring female athletes can compete on a safe and level playing field with other females.

DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY – This Sunday is the Sunday in the Octave of Easter and also Divine Mercy Sunday. The Feast of Mercy is a Celebration and a Summation of God's Merciful Love. The Feast of Mercy, which we celebrate today, focuses on God's mercy as an event! It focuses on God's continuing action of mercy throughout salvation history as we see it recorded in the letter to the Romans, chapters 9, 10,11, culminating in His loving plan to have mercy on all! (See Rom 11:32.) This Feast is a summation of the event to His mercy active in our lives now. It is because of His mercy that we have forgiveness of sin and new life as children of God.

The Easter season is fifty days from the Sunday of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ to Pentecost Sunday. The first eight days of the Easter season make up the Octave of Easter and are celebrated as solemnities of the Lord. It is a way of prolonging the joy of the initial day. In a sense, every day of the Octave is like a little Sunday. During the Easter season the Paschal Candle, a symbol of the presence of the Risen Christ among the people of God, remains in the sanctuary near the Altar or Ambo until Pentecost Sunday. An overview of the liturgical season known as Easter which is represented by the liturgical color white — the color of light, a symbol of joy, purity and innocence (absolute or restored).

Our celebration of the Resurrection of the Lord commences with the Solemn Easter Vigil which will be celebrated at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 8th. It will begin outside the front of the church with the blessing of the Easter Fire. This is followed by the procession through the darkened church with the great light of the Easter Candle as we hear the proclamation of our salvation. During this Mass our catechumens will receive the Sacraments of Initiation. This is the most solemn Liturgy of the Church’s entire year. On Easter Sunday we rejoice in the Risen Lord! Join your fellow parishioners in worship during any of the regular Sunday Masses.

Good Friday (Holy Friday) is the day on which Catholics commemorate the Passion and crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Catholics are joined by almost all other Christians in solemn commemoration on this day. It is the second day of the Sacred Paschal Triduum and it is the Friday before Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord.

With this Mass, celebrated in the evening of the Thursday in Holy Week, the Church begins the sacred Easter Triduum and devotes herself to the remembrance of the Last Supper. At the super on the night he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus, loving those who were his own in the world even to the end, offered his Body and Blood to the Father under the appearance of bread and wine, gave them to the apostles to eat and drink, then enjoined the apostles and their successors in the priesthood to offer them in turn. This Mass is, first of all, the memorial of the institution of the eucharist, that is, of the Memorial of the Lord's Passover, by which under sacramental signs he perpetuated among us the sacrifice of the New Law. The Mass of the Lord's Supper is also the memorial of the institution of the priesthood, by which Christ's mission and sacrifice are perpetuated in the world. In addition, this Mass is the memorial of that love by which the Lord loved us even to death.