This is the final message to our Immaculate Conception Family from our pastor published in the November 27, 2022 Immaculate Conception Church bulletin before his sudden death on November 28, 2022. Please keep Fr. Jimmy, his family and all who mourn his death in your prayers.

I pray that you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I know that many are separated from family, grieving someone who has died, and many other tragedies we all face. Even in the darkness of these sorrows, I pray that we can be thankful for the opportunity to live and love. If there was no love, there would also be no pain of loss. Yet in spite of the dangers of living and loving, we gather as a family of faith, which impels us to hold on to the faith that is worth the risk to love.

This time of Advent is a somber celebration of this reality. Even in the darkness of days, a light shines forth. In the depths of winter's darkness, a child is born and reminds us that God is truly with us in our sorrow and grief, and yes, in the fullness of joys.

Love, Fr. Jimmy