Fr. Glenn: Good For The Soul
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!
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
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,
Fr. Glenn: Hail The King!
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
Beautiful Trees Line Meadow Lane In White Rock
Beautiful blossoming trees line Meadow Lane this week in front of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in White Rock. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
Daily Postcard: View Of El Santuario de Chimayó
Daily Postcard: The view during a visit to the El Santuario de Chimayó. Photo by Shari Mills Read More
Public Invited To Easter Sunrise Service Sunday At The Pond
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
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
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
Free Showing For Community Of Passion Of The Christ 6 P.M. Thursday At SALA Los Alamos Event Center
Blue Bus To Provide Transit Shuttle For April 3 Pilgrimage
NCRTD News:
ESPAÑOLA — The North Central Regional Transit District (NCRTD) Blue Bus will once again provide fare-free bus service to support pilgrims traveling to the annual Santuario de Chimayó pilgrimage on Good Friday, April 3.
Each year, tens of thousands of pilgrims take part in this centuries-old tradition, journeying to El Santuario de Chimayó—one of the most important Catholic pilgrimage destinations in the United States. NCRTD’s Blue Bus plays a key role in supporting a safe and accessible journey for participants from across the region.
To accommodate increased demand, The Blue Read More
Fr. Glenn: Passionate
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
So, we come this weekend (March 29 this year) to Passion, or “Palm”, Sunday … the latter name referring to the branches placed on the road as the Israelites celebrated the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. While that passage of the Gospel opens the day’s Catholic Mass, it hardly speaks to the whole of the day’s remembrance. Rather, in the Gospel of the day’s Mass and of other denominations’ observances, we have one of the longest, most poignant, and most moving excerpts of our year: the account of Jesus’ sacrifice of Himself—the Last Supper, the agony in the Garden, His arrest, false Read More
Daily Postcard: El Santuario De Chimayo In Spring
Daily Postcard: Nestled in the village of Chimayo along the High Road to Taos sits a national historic landmark, El Santuario de Chimayo. The sanctuary is well known for the unusual legend of its creation and as a present-day pilgrimage site. It receives almost 300,000 visitors per year and has been called ‘no doubt the most important Catholic pilgrimage center in the United States.’ It is also often called the ‘Lourdes of America’ for its magical healing soil. In the small prayer room next to the sanctuary is a round hole filled with this soil. In fact, many come to the church in pursuit of this soil, Read More
United Church Of Los Alamos Invites All To Celebrate Easter
COMMUNITY News:
The United Church welcomes all to join us during Holy Week in commemoration and celebration March 29–Easter Sunday, April 5.
Brunch and Egg Hunt following worship on the church grounds!
Services:
- 9:30 a.m., March 29: Palm Sunday Worship, Sanctuary
- 7 p.m., April 2: Maundy Thursday/Tenebrae service, Graves Hall (Christian Education Building)
- 6:30 a.m., April 5: Easter Sunrise Service, west side Ashley Pond Park
- 9:30 a.m., April 5: Easter Worship Service, Sanctuary
The United Church of Los Alamos
2525 Canyon Rd
505.662.2971
Unitedchurchla.org Read More
Fr. Glenn: Treading Water
Fr. Glenn Jones:
Well, we’re coming close to Easter. Next weekend (March 27 this year) is Passion (Palm) Sunday, in which we remember and contemplate especially the passion of Jesus—His arrest, torture and crucifixion. This is why the Catholic devotion—very common during Lent—of the Stations of the Cross. We Christians should be more attentive to meditate on His passion frequently, because Jesus does it for us … takes upon Himself the deserved punishment that our sins and wrongs against God and one another deserve. He saves us from ourselves.
As analogy, we might imagine we’re on the Titanic Read More
All Shall Be Well: ‘Mortal, Can These Bones Live?’
Clergy from left, Deacon Amy Schmuck, Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired, The Rev. Mary Ann Hill. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com
By The Rev. Mary Ann Hill
Rector
Trinity on the Hill
The hand of the Lord came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me all around them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry. He said to me, “Mortal, can these bones live?” Ezekiel 37:1.
Six years ago, clergy friends and I were wondering if our congregations would survive. We couldn’t hold services. Parishioners Read More
Community Invited To Easter Activity At Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints In Los Alamos Meetinghouse
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: News:
The community is invited to the Easter Activity, which begins at 4 p.m. with the last tour beginning at 5:30 p.m., today, March 21, at 1967 18th St. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Los Alamos. Read More
RPNM Chairwoman Amy Barela On Bomb Threat At Church
RPNM News:
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES — Republican Party of New Mexico (RPNM) Chairwoman Amy Barela releases official statement on reports of a bomb threat during a church service in Truth or Consequences:
“I am grateful that everyone at New Hope Revival Church’s Truth or Consequences campus is safe following the reported bomb threat during a recent service,” Chairwoman Barela said. “As Chairwoman, I stand proudly for the liberty of all churches and houses of worship in our great state. More must be done to ensure these sacred places are protected in New Mexico, and the rest of the country from threats Read More
Op-Ed: The Best Of Intentions – A Call To Awareness
By Fr. Theophan Mackey
Rector
Saint Job of Pochaiv Orthodox Church
When I sit down at the pottery wheel, I always have the best of intentions. Whether I have a specific form in mind, or want to make a special gift for someone, or just want to clear my mind from pressing issues that threaten my sanity.
We all, when we start something new, have the best of intentions. We hope, or at least have the general sense, that things will turn out well. We wouldn’t really start them otherwise. I still believe that very few people actually try to do bad things consciously from the start.
But things can and do go sideways, Read More
Fr. Glenn: Longing For Peace
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
Well, the war with Iran today (3/8/26) at least seems to be about over. That regime doesn’t have much else left to fight with, and unless something unforeseen occurs, it’ll likely be done soon. And then the uncertain aftermath of such things.
“Why don’t they surrender?!!”, we ask, and hawks might add: “A people should know when they’re conquered.” But as Maximus replied to that statement in the movie “Gladiator” when the legions were facing a proud yet overmatched foe: “Would you? Would I?” Yet it’s tragic that soldiers continue to be sent to die in futility with no realistic hope Read More