Easter Season Schedule All Scheduled Masses, Adoration and Confession will continue as scheduled. We have a guest priest for this week and next. Easter Season Blessings!

The Lord descends into hell “Something strange is happening—there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began. God has died in the flesh and hell trembles with fear. He has gone to search for our first parent, as for a lost sheep. Greatly desiring to visit those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, he has gone to free from sorrow the captives Adam and Eve, he who is both God and the son of Eve. The Lord approached them bearing the cross, the weapon that had won him the victory. At the sight of him Adam, the first man he had created, struck his breast in terror and cried out to everyone: “My Lord be with you all.” Christ answered him: “And with your spirit.” He took him by the hand and raised him up, saying: “Awake, O sleeper, and rise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.” I am [...]

Ecumenical Cross Walk and 7 Last Words Prayer Service Ecumenical Cross Walk and 7 Last Words Prayer Service in St John the Evangelist Parish Hall Yesterday (11:15am - 1:15pm), which included a Knights of Columbus sponsored and served Fish Fry for the 60+ who attended. Ministers from the First Baptist Church (Robert & Mitch), the First Methodist Church (Keith), the First Presbyterian Church (Holly), Grace Episcopal Church (Joslyn), and myself representing St John the Evangelist all offered reflections on one or two of the 7 last words of Jesus after our lunch. It was a powerful moment of prayer filled with Christian Charity and Unity! John 13:35 Click photos to enlarge:

Holy Thursday Altar of Repose Holy Thursday Altar of Repose in Parish Hall at St John the Evangelist in Waynesville, NC. Parishioners accompanied Jesus all night until 8am Good Friday.

Nail It To The Cross Street Mission On Wednesday, April 17th, Fr Richard and 20 parishioners took to the streets of downtown Waynesville with a cross placed on the corner of Miller St. and Main St. to ask people for their prayer intentions. Even the Mayor of the town came out to put an intention on the cross. The parishioners of St John the Evangelist will be praying for all these intentions throughout the Holy Triduum.