Though crazy late (and quite literally posting at the last minute of the year!), 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.

The eleventh 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
• 00:28 – updates on the parish family
• 08:05 – updates from Jason on Partners in the Gospel
• 13:10 – Does naming the new parish that we will become mean the old names will be lost?
• 27:58 – How are people on the Parish Family Advisory Council (PFAC) chosen?
• 37:06 – Will the PFAC meet on certain schedule (like once or month)?
• 41:48 – Are council meetings open?
• 45:50 – What is your vision for children, especially children’s catechesis or faith formation at Queen of Angels?
• 52:46 – What about children’s catechesis, CCD, or Children’s Liturgy of the Word?
• 59:33 – Could we have music at the end of Mass on weekday Masses?

– – reference to Vatican II document Musicam Sacram (https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_instr_19670305_musicam-sacram_en.html), specifically the degrees of what must be sung and what is optional (see numbers 28 to 31)

• 1:05:10 – Question/conversation about different styles of music at different Masses
• 1:12:51 – Do we get to keep three priests?
• 1:20:47 – What is Seattle going to do to change the perception that anywhere outside of the I-5 corridor isn’t important?
• 1:25:42 – Conversation about the ‘OVC Days’ project in our parish family
• 1:35:06 – Conversation about doing something similar within our parish family to draw closer to each other
• 1:39:37 – closing prayer