On May 1st, the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker, parishioners dedicated a new Faith Formation Center at Vietnamese Martyrs Parish in Tukwila. Such a moment, on a Feast of St. Joseph gave rise to the application of faith in three important areas of life: home, workplace, hometown. Read more…
Today’s Readings provide us encouraging words from the person of Jesus: “Do not let your hearts be troubled.” Living in this time of global pandemic presents many challenges, which cause emotional stress, anxiety, fear and doubts of all kinds, even in the realm of faith. During such times of trial, Read more…
This past weekend, Mt. Angel Seminary in Oregon held their 132nd Baccalaureate and Commencement exercises. That’s correct – 132 graduating classes! Many thanks to the Benedictine community of Mt. Angel Abbey for these many years of forming men for the priesthood, and so many others for service to the Church! Read more…
Here is the video and homily from tonight’s Prayer Service for Survivors of Abuse and healing from trauma. April is Child Abuse Prevention month, and it is fitting to gather this evening to pray that all children will have a happy and healthy youth where they will come to Read more…
As a people created by God to be one human family, we are called to conversion on many levels; spiritual, human, even ecological. (That may be a new word for many!) As readers of this blog know, I have a long-standing love for nature, a great appreciation for finding Read more…
As we continue to celebrate the Year of the Eucharist in this Archdiocese, I’m happy to share the next video in our Come Be Fed video series on the Eucharist. The topic of this week’s video is Eucharist as our source of Unity. You can enjoy other videos by going Read more…
As we celebrate Easter this month, I am reminded of one of my favorite Resurrection accounts from the Gospel of John. Jesus appears to the disciples at dawn along the Sea of Galilee, after they had been fishing all night, but they do not realize who he is. With his Read more…
Today the Church hears the Luke account of the two disciples who encounter the Risen Jesus on the road to Emmaus. In his conversation with the two disciples, Jesus recalls the scriptures that refer to him and how they were fulfilled in his death and resurrection. (Liturgy of the Word) Read more…
Happy Easter! I pray the Risen Jesus fill each of your hearts with peace, light and newness of life. Whether we notice or not, the Risen Jesus accompanies each of us every step of our life. In this year that has known so much darkness, the light of the Risen Read more…
The Gospel for this Tuesday of Holy Week gives us pause to examine how closely we are following Christ. Judas betrayed Jesus, Peter denied Jesus, the other apostles abandoned Jesus. Each of us have had our own moments of abandoning or denying Jesus. In such moments we fall away from Read more…