Daily Postcard: Procession To El Santuario de Chimayó
Daily Postcard: A procession on Good Friday of women bearing a statue of ‘Our Lady of Sorrows’ to El Santuario de Chimayó. ‘Our Lady of Sorrows’ is a title of Mary, the Mother of Jesus, that represents her pain and suffering during the time of His death. Photo by Johnnie Martinez Read More
Community Invited To Easter Sunrise Worship At Ashley Pond
COMMUNITY News:
The Community is invited to the annual Easter Sunrise Service 6:10 a.m. Sunday, April 20 on the west side of Ashley Pond (near the Justice Center).
The service will be led by ministers and leaders from the Christian Church, First United Methodist Church of Los Alamos, Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church, Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church and The United Church.
The service will include Communion. Happy Easter! Read More
NMDOT Prepares For Annual Good Friday Pilgrimage To El Santuario De Chimayó
NMDOT News:
SANTA FE — The New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) is actively preparing for the annual Good Friday pilgrimage to El Santuario de Chimayó, a tradition that draws thousands of walkers from across the region.
Crews have been working for weeks to prepare and will start 12-hour shifts this evening and will continue through Saturday to ensure pedestrian safety along key routes.
To support the pilgrimage, NMDOT has implemented a range of safety measures:
- Roadways are being swept, and cattle guards covered to accommodate foot traffic.
- More than 150 orange barrels and approximately
LAPD Reminds Commuters Of Pilgrimage Into Chimayó
By Deputy Chief James Rodriguez:
Los Alamos Police Department
This Friday, April 18, thousands of participants from our community and surrounding areas will take part in the annual pilgrimage to El Santuario de Chimayó.
This sacred tradition brings a significant increase in pedestrian activity along highways not typically frequented by foot traffic, including N.M. 502, N.M. 501, U.S. 84/285 and N.M. 76.
Motorists: Please be vigilant and exercise caution while traveling these routes, as many pilgrims will be walking along the highways throughout the day and into the evening.
Pedestrians: Read More
Los Alamos Choral Society To Present ‘A Choral Tapestry Echoes Of Belonging’ Sunday May 4 At United Church
All Are Invited To Experience Holy Week And Easter With The United Church Of Los Alamos
Sunrise over the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Photo by Larry Luck
GEORGIA STRICKFADEN
The United Church of Los Alamos
The Lenten and Easter season at The United Church of Los Alamos is filled with moments of worship, learning and reflection.
In this season of contemplation, relationship renewal and reconciliation, The United Church invites you to explore with us a path to renewed relationships with all God’s people even when we disagree.
Holy Week Schedule:
April 17: Maundy Thursday, 7 p.m., an evening Upper Room Tenebrae, Jesus’ last supper with his Disciples. This communion service is in Read More
St. Job Pochaiv Orthodox Church: Holy Week Schedule
Saint Job of Pochaiv Orthodox Church at 1319 Trinity Drive. Courtesy/SJPOC
Saint Job of Pochaiv News:
Saint Job of Pochaiv Orthodox Church at 1319 Trinity Drive announces its schedule for Holy Week:
- Sunday, April 13
- 10 a.m. Divine Liturgy for Palm Sunday
- 5:30 p.m. Bridegroom Matins
- Monday, April 14
- 5:30 p.m. Bridegroom Matins
- Tuesday, April 15
- 5:30 p.m. Bridegroom Matins
- Wednesday, April 16
- 5:30 p.m. Bridegroom Matins
- Thursday, April 17
- 9 a.m. Liturgy of Saint Basil the Great
- 5:30 p.m. Twelve Gospels
- Friday, April 18
- 9 a.m. Royal Hours
- 3 p.m. Vespers with the placing of the Plashchanitza
- 5:30
Sacred Heart Ladies Auxiliary: Spring Arts & Crafts Fair
Scenes From Los Alamos Jewish Center’s 2025 Passover – First Day, Second Night Community Passover Seder
Rabbi Jack Shlachter, foreground, leads members and friends of the Los Alamos Jewish Center (LAJC) congregation in the annual, family-friendly Passover – first day, second night community Seder Sunday night at Pig & Fig Café in White Rock. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Rabbi Jack Shlachter leads the Passover – first day, second night community Seder Sunday in White Rock. The LAJC, at 2400 Canyon Road, is an unaffiliated, egalitarian congregation. Congregants come from a variety of Jewish backgrounds and interfaith families are welcome. LAJC is a mix of lay-led Read More
Fr. Glenn: Even If He Will Not…
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
Big week this week for most of us Christians, beginning today with Palm (Passion) Sunday, with the rest of Holy Week following as we journey with Jesus to the cross on Good Friday and celebration of His resurrection on Sunday April 20. Many think that Christmas is the holiest day of the year, but while Christmas is certainly a prerequisite for it (at least in the way that God ordained), the greatest day for Christianity is Easter. In Christmas the divine assumes humanity with itself, and with the Easter resurrection divinity opens humanity to new life with Him in eternity as Jesus Read More
All Shall Be Well: The Three Hours Service Returns
Clergy from left, Deacon Amy Schmuck, Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired, The Rev. Mary Ann Hill and The Rev. Lynn Finnegan. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com
By The Rev. Mary Ann Hill
Rector
Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church
Today, Palm Sunday, begins the holiest week of the Christian year. Traditionally churches celebrate with processions with palm branches and readings remembering Christ’s entry into Jerusalem.
Maundy Thursday marks the beginning of the three holiest days. Maundy comes from the Latin word “mandatum” or commandment. The worship on this day recalls the Last Supper Read More
Cinema Cindy Reviews: ‘The King Of Kings’
By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos
Now showing at SALA, through Easter Sunday, April 20, is a wonderful, new animated film, “The King of Kings”. It tells the story of Jesus in a way both children and adults can appreciate.
The film is based on “The Life of Our Lord” the story that Charles Dickens wrote solely for his own children. It was his tradition to read it to his family at Christmas each year. Dickens, who died in 1870, insisted the story not be published during his lifetime and not until the family agreed to it. In fact, it was 1934 before the story was published, 64 years after Charles Dickens’ death Read More
Scenes From Final Knights Of Columbus Fish Dinner For 2025 Lenten Season In Immaculate Heart Of Mary Parish Hall
Scene from the final Knights of Columbus fish dinner for the 2025 Lenten Season this evening in Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish Hall on Canyon Road. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Scene from the final Knights of Columbus fish dinner for the 2025 Lenten Season this evening in Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish Hall on Canyon Road. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Scene from the final Knights of Columbus fish dinner for the 2025 Lenten Season this evening in Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish Hall on Canyon Road. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Scene from the final Knights of Read More
NCRTD Blue Bus To Provide Special Express Service From Pojoaque For 2025 Pilgrimage To Santuario De Chimayó
NCRTD News:
The North Central Regional Transit District (NCRTD) will again provide special Express Bus service for the annual pilgrimage to the historic Santuario de Chimayó shrine in Chimayó.
In addition to fare-free service from Española to Chimayó on Route 150 along N.M. 76, the Blue Bus Santuario Express Route 151 will be operational on Good Friday, April 18, offering alternative, free round-trip express service from The Cities of Gold Casino Bus stop in Pojoaque to Chimayó.
The Santuario de Chimayó, a revered Roman Catholic Church and Shrine, attracts more than 30,000 pilgrims annually, Read More
Rabbi Shlachter: Passover Begins Saturday Evening April 12
By Rabbi Jack Shlachter
Los Alamos Jewish Center
The 8-day holiday of Passover is the most widely celebrated holiday on the Jewish calendar and traditionally requires a great deal of advance preparation. (My blood pressure is already rising as I recognize the rapid approach of the holiday). This year, Passover begins on Saturday evening, April 12. Passover commemorates the release of the Jewish people from slavery thousands of years ago, and many of us will have in our minds and hearts the remaining 59 hostages still held captive in Gaza following the Hamas atrocities of 18 months ago.
The festive Read More
United Church Of Los Alamos Holy Week Schedule
Sunrise over the Sangre de Cristo Range. Photo by Larry Luck
UCLA News:
The Lenten and Easter season at The United Church of Los Alamos is filled with moments of worship, learning and reflection.
In this season of contemplation, relationship renewal and reconciliation, The United Church invites you to explore with us a path to renewed relationships with all God’s people even when we disagree.
Holy Week Schedule:
- Palm Sunday at 9:30 a.m., April 13 in the Sanctuary at 2525 Canyon Road. Worship celebrates Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
- Jesus’ last supper with his Disciples 7 p.m., April
Fr. Glenn: Countin’ For Somethin’
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
I’ve been watching the old black and white episodes of “Gunsmoke” during relax time lately, and saw a rather poignant one recently (Ssn 9, Ep.26). A struggling farmer was feeling that he was getting “old” (a whole 43 … puh-leeaasssse!) and was depressed because he felt that he had been of no consequence in his life—barely making a living, no kids, and a shrewish wife declaring him a “failure”. A rather timid yet good fellow, he goes into Dodge City hoping to find some way to make his mark, and ends up publicly backing down to a bully in shame (in front of a woman who had been kind to him, Read More
St. Job Orthodox Church Opens Little Free Library
St. Job of Pochaiv Orthodox Church opens a Little Free Library at 1319 Trinity Drive. Courtesy photo
COMMUNITY News:
St. Job of Pochaiv Orthodox Church has announced the opening of its Little Free Library at 1319 Trinity Drive behind Muy Salsas restaurant.
The Little Free Library offers books and media on all topics. Look for the blue Little Free Library box and Take a book … Share a book.
Little Free Library is a non-profit organization based in St. Paul, Minn., with a mission is to expand book access for all through a global network of volunteer-led book exchange boxes.
St. Job Orthodox Church Read More
All Shall Be Well: God Is Doing A New Thing
Clergy from left, Deacon Amy Schmuck, Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired, The Rev. Mary Ann Hill and The Rev. Lynn Finnegan. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com
By Deacon Cynthia Z. Biddlecomb, M.Div.
ELCA retired
Approaching another birthday ending in zero or five can make one feel old. A lot of history got us this far. For the eldest among us, we wonder what could possibly equal the joys in our past. And yet, through the lens of our faith (and as we know from experience), there are still good things to come.
Change, we have learned, is inevitable. We don’t always like the changes we see around Read More
Fr. Glenn: Not Exalting Self
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
There sure is a lot of screaming and vitriol these days. Accusations of fascism here, genocide there … every “-phobia” and “-ism” imaginable … and some never thought of before. Much of it, of course, is just political or protester hyperbole to manipulate others toward a their “side”, or even to just score cheap points without taking into account all the facts or the whole of often myriad various concerns and variables. But underlying so many of demonizations seem to be airs of superiority. But for a true evaluation of self, humility is an essential ingredient, for “Arrogance Read More
