John 15:9-17

15:9 As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love.

15:10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

15:11 I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.

15:12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

15:13 No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends.

15:14 You are my friends if you do what I command you.

15:15 I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.

15:16 You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name.

15:17 I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.

by Jason Falter

My experience on Easter Vigil, receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation, was many things: elating, humbling, pick an emotion! I was baptized Catholic and attended Mass all the way through high school but had never received any of the other sacraments. Once I graduated and entered the military, my faith took a back seat to everything else in my life, and for 15 years I did everything BUT attend Mass. It wasn't until Carey and I were married in 2009 and started looking for a church our family could grow in that I returned to my Catholic roots. Each RCIA class my wife and I attended felt like one more step toward achieving something extraordinary. Before we knew it, Easter Vigil was upon us! As I was anointed by Fr. Greg with the sacred chrism, I felt an awakening inside, the opening of a door that had long been shut. I emerged from a dark tunnel into the light.

                           Jason Falter is Confirmed

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Fr Kastigar's 60th Anniversary of Ordination was celebrated recently at the K of C hall.

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