Happy New Year! I hope that you and your loved ones are enjoying the return to normalcy after refreshing & joy-filled holiday celebrations. Though I delight in the celebrations of the Incarnation, Mary, Mother of God, and the Epiphany, I am glad to be back in...
Over the last five months – but especially during the last several weeks – I have been in discussion & discernment around the question of our weekend Mass schedules across the Catholic communities of the Olympic Peninsula. I recently posted a deep-dive...
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...
This weekend, in the pastor’s notes of the bulletin and in the announcements at the central region parishes (Queen of Angels & Saint Joseph), I offered an update on the upcoming weekend Mass schedule changes coming to the central region and east region...
Today is the third day of a sort of unofficial ‘autumn triduum’ of All Hallow’s Eve, All Saints, and All Souls’ (kudos to Elizabeth Scalia, through whom I encountered the term in her 2021 article Halloween, All Saints’, All Souls’: The “Autumn...