I am pleased to share with you the audio of our monthly parish family townhall gathering. As always, you may watch the video here – and I’ve included the timestamps below for reference & easy access – but the best way to navigate the video is to watch it on YouTube and use the timestamps there.
Recent events, especially Father Ed’s heart attack (he’s doing much better now: you can read a bit about it in this week’s pastor’s post), conspired to keep me from posting this as quickly as I might otherwise. Thank you for your patience – and for your prayers for him (please keep them up!). Nonetheless, we had a great time at the parish family town hall gathering. I hope you enjoy catching up with it – and plan on joining us for our next one!
The seventh of our monthly parish family townhall gatherings. Held on the fourth Friday of each month and at a different church within the Catholic communities of the Olympic Peninsula, these gatherings are an opportunity for the pastor to provide updates on the state of the parish family and for parishioners to ask questions, receive answers, and offer feedback as we discern how we will become one parish family as part of Partners in the Gospel.
- 00:00 – recording start
- 00:05 – opening prayer
- 00:35 – updates on the parish family to date
- 01:25 – update on Father Ed’s health issues & contingency plans while he is away
- 03:32 – state of the parish family
- 10:47 – Partners in the Gospel updates from Jason Stolberg, chancery liaison
- Meet our chancery liaisons – https://archseattle.org/for-parishes/…
- Visit the archdiocesan Partners in the Gospel page – https://archseattle.org/partners/
- 16:20 – Are all the parishes in the archdiocese in families?
- 17:03 – What news about a Queen of Angels 5 pm vigil Mass choir?
- 20:36 – Does the choir need to be in the choir loft?
- 21:40 – Why aren’t children invited to come forward for a blessing at communion
- 27:15 – What are some of the things that other people at other parishes have been asking for – is there anyone wanting to do a book club, even between parishes?
- 29:59 – talking further about starting new things in general within our communities
- 31:42 – Are there funds to assist youth & young adults to go to college?
- 43:40 – what is going on with the family formation group (at Queen of Angels)?
- 45:04 – are we able to get priests to come in and do retreats?
- 50:32 – regarding your back back (Father Maurer’s), would coming down from the step to floor level when offering communion?
- 52:42 – what is the standard for starting a group in our parish family?
- 55:39 – speculating on the decline not only of volunteers but the generation gap in our communities
- 59:52 – are we going to change the way we do social hours after Sunday Mass?
- 1:06:26 – talking a bit about balancing regular social hours and bigger breakfast/meal events
- 1:09:42 – is there a pictoral directory or plans for a pictoral directory for our parish or parish family?
- 1:13:16 – is the long-term of the archdiocese to have one church on the Olympic Peninsula?
- 1:16:45 – dreaming about building a new church in the central region (Port Angeles & Sequim)
- 1:19:19 – speaking to the concerns of closures and how such things are discerned
- 1:23:39 – discussion about Catholic cemeteries on the Olympic Peninsula
- 1:25:25 – closing prayer and thanks
Thank you Fr. Maurer,
I appreciate the time stamp and topics. Very helpful!