by Father Jacob Maurer | Jun 28, 2024 | Pastor's post
Car side mirror with a reflection of sun, Niranjan Photographs (Unsplash) This week is marks my final days here at Saint Mark parish. One one hand, things have been moving impossibly fast between moving out, cleaning the rectory, moving the new pastor in, and...
by Father Jacob Maurer | Jun 23, 2024 | Reflections
(click here to go directly to the new schedule documents) This weekend at all of the Catholic communities of the Olympic Peninsula, our new Mass & confession schedules were announced. The fruit of consultation across three months with the current priests, our...
by Father Jacob Maurer | Jun 19, 2024 | Pastor's post
Due to our annual archdiocese clergy conference (called “Priest Days”), this week’s pastor’s post is coming to you later than normal. I returned late this evening after three days with the bishops and my brother priests. I always look forward...
by Father Jacob Maurer | Jun 11, 2024 | Pastor's post
You’ll notice that this month has a lot of priests celebrating their anniversaries – this is because the Archdiocese of Seattle typically celebrates ordinations on the first or second Saturday of June. You may recall that we celebrated the ordination of...
by Father Jacob Maurer | Jun 3, 2024 | Pastor's post
Please forgive the lateness of this week’s pastor’s post. Thanks particularly to the help of dedicated PAAs, a deacon who assisted with an extensive Spanish translation, and all those who have participated in the consultative process, this weekend saw the...
by Father Jacob Maurer | Jun 1, 2024 | Catholic communities of the Olympic Peninsula (Parish Family 49)
(click here to go directly to the proposed Mass schedule change documents) Happy Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi)! We celebrate today the great gift of the most holy Eucharist. Before the proclamation of the gospel today, the...
by Father Jacob Maurer | May 28, 2024 | Pastor's post
This time of year alway seems to move faster as we get closer to July 1. Even when we’re not looking at a major transition among every parish in the archdiocese, the move from Easter into Ordinary time is chock-full of events. Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, Corpus...
by Father Jacob Maurer | May 21, 2024 | Pastor's post
In preparing for Pentecost this last weekend, I found myself unexpectedly melancholic. Though not unfamiliar emotional territory, I was caught off guard by the strength of the feeling of sorrow at the end of Easter. Sitting in my chapel on Saturday morning, I was...
by Father Jacob Maurer | May 17, 2024 | Reflections
(Wikipedia has helpful side-by-side translations) In just a couple of days we will celebrate the last day of Easter and the birthday of the Church – Pentecost Sunday. The sequence Veni, Sancte Spiritus (Come, Holy Spirit) will be chanted just before we hear the...
