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In this Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus asks His disciples a question that is as important today as it was at Caesarea Philippi: “Who do you say that I am?”

This Sunday’s Gospel gives us one of the more challenging encounters in the ministry of Jesus: His conversation with the Canaanite woman who begs Him to heal her daughter.

The message of the Gospel is not that faith removes all our struggles. It is not that believers are somehow spared hardship, disappointment, or loss. Rather, the message is this: in the midst of our fears, God is with us.

The Eucharist still appears to our senses as ordinary bread and wine; but it has been transubstantiated (or changed in its substance) into the body and blood of Christ.

At Saint James, we are truly blessed. We are a vibrant parish, not by accident but because generations before us believed deeply enough to sacrifice, to plan, and to trust God with the future of this parish. Today, it is our turn!

Today we rejoice in Christ’s victory over sin and death. May we live as Easter people—trusting that with Him, every Good Friday can lead to an Easter Sunday.

This Sunday’s Gospel reminds us that there is more than one kind of blindness. The man born blind receives physical sight—and his spiritual sight grows as he recognizes Jesus.

All of us, at one point or another, have caught ourselves standing in front of the refrigerator or scrolling endlessly on our phones, searching for something to fill a vague emptiness.