Blessed Holy Week and Happy Easter!

Easter 2025

Dear friends of the Diocese of Metuchen,

“With such great joy does Christ fill our hearts this day by His Resurrection, not alone because He gives us the gladness of this day, but because He has also given us salvation through His Passion, immortality through His Death, healing of our wounds, and resurrection from our fall!” - St. Proclus of Constantinople

In this graced-filled Holy Year of Jubilee, especially as we share the date of our Easter joy with our Orthodox brothers and sisters, I wish you and your loved ones the peace of Christ. As you attend Mass and gather with loved ones for an Easter feast, let us all cry out in our hearts, “Alleluia! Christ is risen! He is risen indeed!”

Let us, like the devoted women who found the tomb empty, tell everyone the angels’ message that Jesus has been raised. With our Lenten sacrifices completed, we now step out of our spiritual tombs and look forward with joy and optimism to a whole Easter Season to live as “Pilgrims of Hope” as Pope Francis has called us to be this Holy Year.

I give thanks to God for you and your kind support in so many ways. I promise you a place in my prayers at Mass on Easter Sunday. Please remember me in your prayers as well.

Blessed Holy Week and Happy Easter! With renewed best wishes, I remain
Yours in Christ,

Most Reverend James F. Checchio, JCD, MBA
Bishop of Metuchen