Fourth Sunday of Easter | Bulletin of May 11, 2025 Word from the Pastor

My Dear Family of Our Lady of Lourdes,

Happy Mother’s Day!
I hope our mothers have a wonderful day today and get a feel for just how much we love them and thank God for them. As I am sure you heard me say once or twice I think that the unconditional love we receive from our parents is the closest we get here on earth to the love that God has for us. Our mothers show us and our world a way of living, a way of loving, which transforms both the ones who are loved and the one loving. We need them. Our world needs them.

It would bring our moms great honor if we would follow their example and love others in the way that they have loved us that is to say for their own sake and not for what they can do for us. The conflict and tension that surrounds us would be transformed into an atmosphere of security and joyful expectation. We would set others free to believe that what they hope for is possible and to trust that they are not alone in this world. And that would change everything.

Mother’s Day weekend is also Ordination weekend in the Archdiocese of Miami. Let us keep our newly ordained in our prayers as the enter the presbyterate of the Archdiocese of Miami and begin their ministry among us. The assignment of the newly ordained causes a chain reaction each year in the assignment of priests and this weekend is also when many of the changes for the coming year are announced.

Again, this year we are affected by that chain reaction. Fr. Garcia will be leaving us as he prepares for retirement in the coming year. If he ends up living nearby, perhaps he can continue as one of our helping priests, part of the extended family. Fr. Eduardo Logiste Felix OP will be coming to us from St. Dominic Catholic Parish here in Miami. It will be a blessing to have someone with a background in religious life joining the parish family. I am sure we will welcome him with open hearts, and he will have the chance to join the September pilgrimage to Lourdes and come to know us and the parish mission better.

For today, though, let us concentrate on our moms.
Thank you for loving us.
We surely love you.

Msgr. Schwanger
Pastor

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