Los Alamos Church Members On Mexico Mission
More than 50 members of United Church of Los Alamos and Unitarian Universalist Church prepare to depart for Mexico Monday to build homes for the poor over their spring break vacation. Photo by Laura EricksonOn the first official day of spring break Monday, more than 50 members of the United Church of Los Alamos and the Unitarian Universalist Church saddled up for a long drive and an even longer work week.
Local Athletes Shine At KofC State Free Throw Contest
2017 Northern New Mexico State Champion competitors and coaches, from left, District Deputy Harry Montoya, Lukas Ulibarri (Los Alamos), Josh Sanchez (Espanola), Adam Montoya (Espanola), Benjamin Sanchez (Los Alamos), Joshua Woodson (Los Alamos) and Los Alamos K of C Youth Coordinator Roger Anaya. Courtesy photo
2017 State Champion competitors who placed first through 3rd. Courtesy photo
SPORTS News:
More than 70 boys and girls ages 9-14 from around the state participated in the annual Knights of Columbus State Free Throw Contest March 18 at Bernalillo High School. District champions Read More
Fr. Glenn: Conscience
By Rev. Glenn JonesWe have many sayings about conscience, such as “My conscience is clear”, or “I don’t want that on my conscience.” Conscience is an interesting concept, but what is it? Merriam-Webster defines conscience as “the sense or consciousness of the moral goodness or blameworthiness of one’s own conduct, intentions, or character together with a feeling of obligation to do right or be good.” But that definition, of course, begs the question: “What are the right and the good?”
In very broad philosophical concept, the “right and the Read More
Pastor Granillo: Serving Honorably
By Pastor Raul Granillo“Take your pay and go. I want to give the man who was hired last the same as I gave you. Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?” Matthew 20:14-15 (NIV)
As I was driving through the National Cemetery I found myself reading many of the grave markers that were there. I read their names and the dates that they lived, and I wondered what their lives were like. As I was doing this, I noticed something that I had never noticed before. These men and women were not separated by rank. I found many Privates laid to rest
Community Invited To Fish Fry Dinner At IHM Tonight
Pysanky: Learn Thousand Year Old Art Form March 25
Fr. Glenn: Finding The Path
A few Sundays ago, we read in our Sunday Mass a portion of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount: “No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” (Matthew 6:24) During the Lenten season we deny ourselves various things…for self-denial and penance, yes, but mostly to remind us of the temporary nature of the material. We eat, then are hungry again…we drink, but then thirst again. Yet Jesus assures us: “I am the bread of life; he who comes to me Read More
Los Alamos Jewish Center Hosts Annual Community Passover Seder April 11
Jewish Center News:
The Los Alamos Jewish Center will hold its annual Community Passover Seder at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 11 at the Betty Ehart Senior Center. The event is open to anyone interested in attending.
The Seder is a ceremonial dinner filled with rituals designed to celebrate the Jewish people’s exodus from Egypt. The Seder, which is Hebrew for “order”, ushers in the week of Pesach in which Jews refrain from eating Chametz (any food that’s made of grain and water that have been allowed to ferment and “rise”).
The celebration of Passover commemorates the miraculous Read More
Pastor Raul Granillo: Building Potential
Pastor Raul Granillo
Los Alamos
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” John 3:16-17 (NIV)
My wife and I started a basic fort in the back yard for my oldest son Kyle. It’s nothing more than a PVC frame and a camouflage roof. To look at it, you wouldn’t think much, but when Kyle saw it, his imagination exploded. He saw potential for the greatest fort ever. That vision seems to have consumed him. He is always looking for scrap Read More
IHM’s Fish Fry Fridays Drawing Record Crowds
Record crowds are gathering in the parish hall at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church, 3700 Canyon Road, each week for the annual Fish Fry Fridays dinner offered during the Lenten season, according to organizers. This past Friday the crowd was a bit smaller as some diners took advantage of traditional corned beef and cabbage dinners on the menus of area restaurants for St. Patrick’s Day. IHM’s popular fish fry dinner continues 5-7 p.m. next Friday at the parish hall. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Congressman Bill Redmond of Los Alamos enjoys a fish dinner with his Read More
Community Invited To IHM’s Fish Fry Dinner Friday
Fifth Annual Women’s Mini Conference Saturday
Joy Freymiller RhodesSPIRITUALITY News:
“Ripples of Kindness” is the theme of the fifth annual countywide “Women2Women” mini-conference.
The mini-conference, which seeks to connect Los Alamos women with each other and with God, will take place 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday, March 18 at the Los Alamos Church of Christ, 2323 Diamond Dr.
Roberta (Bertie) Sorenson
The morning of Christian fellowship, mutual encouragement, and spiritual strengthening is open to all women in the community. The event is free. Tea and finger foods will be served.
The church began sponsoring the countywide conference
Community Invited To Fish Fry Dinner At IHM Friday
Learn Thousand Year Old Pysanky Art Form March 25
Deacon O’Hara: Power Of Choice And Free Will
By Deacon Jim O’Hara“Why did God have to put that tree in the garden?”
I think this is a great question; a question that is very appropriate to the readings heard on the First Sunday of Lent. The answer is, the tree is there because a choice had to be made. In Chapter four of his first letter, St. John tells us simply that God is love. Our Christian theology explains this statement by telling us that God is a community of three persons; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
The Father gives all of Himself, in love, to the Son. The Son returns this love to Read More
Pastor Granillo: Reasonable Disobedience
By Pastor Raul Granillo
Los Alamos
Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. After fasting 40 days and 40 nights, he was hungry. Matthew 4:1-2 (NIV)
I struggle sometimes with remembering that not everything is black and white. The Christian Church has been guilty of this as well. Its message has sometimes been, “Here is the rule, there is no excuse for disobedience.”
Sometimes we treat people as if every decision in their life is simple, “Choose A, not B, and you will get C”. This, of course, is not always true. Life is complex. Every single person on this planet, at this Read More
An Open Book: Let There Be Light
By DAVID IZRAELEVITZA theoretical physicist and good friend of mine revels in the observation that in the Scriptures God created Light first. As if the cosmic microwave background radiation were not sufficient evidence of the theory of the Big Bang, he can point to Genesis as further cosmic, or maybe Cosmic, confirmation. To me, however, there is a simpler reason why God would have placed Light in the epicenter of Creation.
Without contrast, without distinctions, there is no universe, and the most fundamental contrast is between light and darkness.
I felt that contrast increasing Read More
