Spirituality

Fr. Glenn: Good For The Soul

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

I came across a pretty good series on Prime the other day called “Genius”, in which four seasons cover some notable persons in history—specifically the lives of Einstein, Picasso, Aretha Franklin and Martin Luther King, Jr. The season covering Picasso focused largely on his many romantic relationships and rather hedonistic lifestyle, which resulted in much angst, anger, sadness and chaos in Picasso’s life and the lives of his various wives, mistresses and their resulting children. As the series progresses, the viewer can’t help but wonder if the real Picasso had many regrets Read More

All Shall Be Well: Easter Is A Season!

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Clergy from left, Deacon Amy Schmuck, Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired, and The Rev. Mary Ann Hill. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com

By Deacon Cynthia Z. Biddlecomb, (ELCA) retired

Happy Easter! You might, unless you are Christian Orthodox, say “but that was a week ago”. In many of our churches, Easter is celebrated for 50 days, until the Day of Pentecost, which means “Fifty”. Among us, Easter is a season!

In this Easter Season, we tell the gospel stories in which the resurrected Jesus came to be among his apostles. He first needed to calm them down with the words, “Peace be with you”, here Read More

LANL Invites Community Participation In Spring Food Drive … Drive Up & Drop Off At Immaculate Heart Of Mary April 10

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Joyful LANL employees prepare food bags for distribution. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory’s (LANL) Spring Food Drive benefiting The Food Depot runs now through April 16.

New this year, the Laboratory invites community members to contribute, too. Friday, April 10, community members may drop off food donations at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church, 3700 Canyon Road in Los Alamos. Participants can drive through the parking lot and drop off their donations. Lab volunteers will help unload.

Needed items:

  • Canned protein, healthy snacks, baby food, ground coffee,
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Fr. Glenn: Hail The King!

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Fr. Glenn Jones: 

A very blessed and happy Easter and Easter season to all of you! And we ask for the same for the whole world. In these days of strife and division, what could be better than to have Jesus, the Prince of Peace, risen again to bring kindness, graciousness and charity to the hearts of all?

Ah, but what Catholic term as “concupiscence”—the “stain” of the turning away from God in Original Sin remaining even after baptism—keeps tending to weigh us down like a stone. How is it manifest? By our never-absent bickering, hatreds, jealousies, selfishness, along with all the negativities that Read More

Public Invited To Easter Sunrise Service Sunday At The Pond

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Scene from a previous Easter sunrise service at Ashley Pond Park. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

COMMUNITY News:

The public is welcome to attend the annual Easter sunrise service at 6:30 a.m. Sunday on the west side of Ashley Pond Park (near the Justice Center).

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 will lead the service.

The service will include Communion. Happy Easter! Read More

An Open Book: At The Passover Seder Table

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By DAVID IZRAELEVITZ
Los Alamos

Family gatherings at the Ellis household were a symphony of activity, conversation, and food, with my mother-in-law, Faith, serving as both conductor and principal violinist. Like any esteemed musician, she had her favorite pieces. She was famous for her pepper-infused boiled fish balls, or gefilte fish, a dish as much a part of the Passover season as a recital of Handel’s Messiah is to Christmas observance.

Having grown up without the benefit of extended family nearby, I found those multigenerational gatherings of grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins Read More

Lauritzen: Local Rabbi Jack Shlachter Attends Antisemitism Conference, Invites Community To Learn More

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Rabbi Jack Shlachter

By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN
Los Alamos

Earlier this month, local Rabbi Jack Shlachter attended the 2026 StandWithUs (SWU) conference in Las Vegas, Nev. I discovered this when I reached out to Rabbi Schlachter after the March 12 attack at Temple Israel, a Reform synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan.

Rabbi Shlachter told me that he was already scheduled to attend an antisemitism conference within the next few days. The last two years have found a group called Rabbis United holding its annual meeting in conjunction with the SWU event. While Rabbis United was a gathering Read More