Our Lady of Guadalupe Hermosa Beach preaches, teaches sheltered at home online
Veronica Webb streams Sunday Mass said by Our Lady of Guadalupe pastor Father Paul Gawlowski. Photo by JP Cordero Last Sunday’s first reading for the fifth Sunday in Lent was from the prophet Ezekiel: “And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.” Sunday’s second reading was John’s Gospel about Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. Our Lady of Guadalupe Pastor Paul Gawlowski delivered the readings from the altar pulpit, as he does every Sunday, with notable enthusiasm, as if just discovering the readings, though this is his 20th Lenten season since becoming a priest. The former aerospace engineer was ordained a Franscian friar in 1999, at age 40. “Ezekiel calls for living a life of prayer for those who are suffering,” he said. Lazarus’ rise from the dead, he explained, is evidence of God’s power over death. Lent is a time of sacrifice, in preparation for Christ’s resurrection on Easter Sunday. But no one listening to Fr. Paul preach to his Hermosa Beach parish could miss the timeliness of the readings. “We live in extraordinary times, and we cannot help but wonder why…
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