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...
by Father Jacob Maurer | May 13, 2024 | Pastor's post |
Happy Easter! It is strange to find ourselves in the final week before the end of the season, the celebration of Pentecost, and the return to Ordinary Time. After the forty days of Lent, the forty days leading up to the Ascension, and these last ten days before...
by Father Jacob Maurer | Apr 6, 2024 | Catholic communities of the Olympic Peninsula (Parish Family 49), Parish life
Across the archdiocese, announcements are being made at every parish about priest transitions. On one hand – and I’m surely not alone in this! – it is good to finally have priest (re)assignments known publicly. On the other hand, this is another...
by Father Jacob Maurer | Apr 1, 2024 | Reflections |
Happy Easter! We have, at long last, reached the celebration of the resurrection of the Lord. And what a series of celebrations we have had, between the Easter vigil and the two Sunday morning Masses! As I told the servers before Mass, the Easter vigil is the most...
