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FROM THE ARCHBISHOP
Encouragement for the journey
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SAINTS OF THE MONTH
An African martyr and a
Syrian hymnist
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FAITH AND FINANCES
Don’t let money ruin
your marriage
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YOUR FAMILY MATTERS
The other vocation crisis
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CULTURE
Sharing love and sea scallops
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CATHOLIC VOICES
When God lived in the sticks
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ASK FATHER
Can divorced Catholics
receive Communion?
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DEL ARZOBISPO
¡Ultreya! ¡Más allá! Sigue
el camino del Señor
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SANTOS DEL MES
San Carlos Luanga y
San Efrén
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A CATHOLIC VIEW
Deal with it: June is rainy
and you’re a sinner
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DEL OBISPO
El poder de un soplo
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SEMILLAS DE LA PALABRA
Estudiante recién
graduado: ¡Tu momento
ha llegado!
SACRED STORY
Healing a child’s broken
heart, and yours
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NEWS
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FROM THE ARCHBISHOP
( E N E S PA Ñ O L : PÁ G I N A 2 4 )
Ultreya! Onward!
Follow the path of the Lord
Faith in Christ sets a clear course on the winding pilgrimage of life
I
’m the kind of person who likes to
be inspired. I can be inspired by an
engaging biography, spiritual reading,
a touching movie, a stirring sermon or
simply by being in the presence of an
inspirational person. Such inspirations
serve as a kind of encouragement for me
along the journey.
and incomprehensible circumstances life sets before
you, stay the course set by faith.
Follow the Lord Jesus as the only Way, Truth
and Life. The New Testament is absolutely clear
about this core of our Christian faith: Jesus Christ is
the one mediator between God and humanity, the
only savior of the world, the only way to the Father.
Strive to know him by pouring out your heart
to him in prayer, by following his ways, and by
imitating his example of sacrificial love.
ARCHBISHOP
This is the way of love for which you and I
J. PETER SARTAIN
Since the Middle Ages, the most famous
were made by God, and God has revealed it to us
pilgrimage site in Spain has been Santiago de
completely in Jesus. Cling to him. As his mother
Compostela, in honor of St. James the Apostle, the patron of
said, “Do whatever he tells you.”
our archdiocese. Even today Catholics from across Europe
make the journey by car, by bicycle and on foot. In the old
It is never too late to start again
days, as pilgrims passed through villages on their way to
Stay close to the sacraments of the Church. We Catholics
Compostela, locals would shout, “Ultreya!” — “Onward!” —
are doubly blessed because we are a people of both word and
as a cheer of inspiration and encouragement. They knew that
sacrament. In the seven sacraments the Lord Jesus himself
the graces awaiting them at the destination were
comes to us and continues his saving ministry in
worth the hardship of the journey.
By God’s grace
the Church. To stay away from the sacraments is
to deprive ourselves of the food we need most. To
Blessings along the journey
we already hold
stay away from the sacraments is to miss precious
There has always been the added sense
face-to-face encounters with Christ.
within us the
for Christians, however, that such journeys
Have hope. Hope is not the same as wishing,
themselves bestow blessings. By God’s grace
nor is it the same as praying that the odds will
rewards of our
we already hold within us the rewards of our
be in favor of what we “hope” will happen.
destination, which is not so much a place as
destination,
Instead, hope is confidence in the truth God has
it is a state of eternal union with God. We are
revealed to us about himself and his promises.
which is not so
always beginning the pilgrimage, always on
The truths that are the foundation
pilgrimage, and always arriving at deeper union
of hope are not mere theories, good ideas or goals
much a place
with God. That’s why I’m inspired by people,
awaiting us at some point in our future. They are
readings, movies and sermons that remind me
as it is a state
added lights along the path of life and sound
of what God wants to give me right now, as a
criteria to be used in making concrete decisions.
foretaste of what’s in store in eternity.
of eternal union
They are truths about which God has given
As you make your pilgrimage in the Lord,
repeated,
unmistakable evidence throughout
with God.
I would like this column to be a kind of
history: You were made for God. God loves
Ultreya! for you.
you. God forgives you. God is extending a hand
Stay the course set by faith. The path of life is not identical
in friendship to you. God has a plan for you. God is patient
for everyone and has surprising twists and turns. Its hazards are with you. God will never abandon you. God wants you to
sometimes unpredictable, and its trials can be baffling. But
be with him forever.
along everyone’s path, no matter where it leads or how it winds,
In God’s eyes, revealed to us in Jesus, it is always too
faith sets a clear course.
soon to give up; it is never too late to start again. Hope in
Trust in God to give light and guidance. We cannot see
God. Ultreya!
beyond the bend just ahead of us, but God can. In prayer and
reflection on God’s word, we listen to him show us the way
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SAINTS OF THE MONTH
( E N E S PA Ñ O L : PÁ G I N A 2 5 )
St. Charles Lwanga
Young African
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Known to Syrian
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at 18 and may have
accompanied his bishop to the Council of Nicaea in 325.
He served as head of the cathedral school and left Nisibia
only after it became Persian. In 363 he moved to a cave
overlooking Edessa
but preached frequently in the city and wrote many
poems, hymns and biblical commentaries; he organized
a choir of women to sing his hymns during liturgies.
About 370 he visited St. Basil in Caesarea. The winter
before his death, he earned praise for managing relief
supplies during a severe famine in Edessa. Ephraem is
the only Syrian father declared a doctor of
the church.
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Among the Martyrs of
Uganda, Charles Lwanga
and Joseph Mkasa are best
known. Christianity was
new to the African nation and a youthful King Mwanga
ruled with animosity toward foreigners. He saw the missionaries as a threat and turned savage toward young Christian
pages in his court. Joseph, a Catholic, and master of the
court pages, was killed for reproaching the king. Charles
and several other young Christian men were put to death
for not renouncing their faith. The martyrs were canonized
in 1964.
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FA I T H A N D F I N A N C E S
Kate Livingstone
MARRIAGE and MONEY
A few simple principles can help you find financial peace
and avoid becoming a statistic
W
this love may lead the spouses
hen considering
to God with powerful effect
the combination
and may aid and strengthen
of marriage and money,
them in the sublime office of
being a father or a mother.”
the image of oil and
water comes to mind.
Everything is God’s
The two don’t seem to
Guiding principles for
managing money come from
mix very well! A recent
PHIL LENAHAN
the church’s teaching on our
Money Magazine survey
role as stewards of Provifound that money
dence. The most important
principle is that God is the creator and
causes tension in 84 percent of
ultimate owner of all that exists, and
marriages, and 70 percent of
that we are his stewards, or managers. I
couples argue about money. A
remember one couple sharing with me
how they argued a lot about money, the
whole lot of marriages end in
typical “his” versus “hers” argument.
divorce, and money issues are at
Once they realized what they had really
or near the top of reasons listed
belonged to the Lord, their perspective
for the breakups.
changed. They told me, “How can we
This is unfortunate, because our Lord
wants something much better for us.
Genesis 2:24 says, “That is why a man
leaves his father and mother and clings
to his wife, and the two of them become
one body.” This unity goes beyond the
pure physical union within marriage, to
a unity of purpose.
The Second Vatican Council’s Pastoral
Constitution on the Church in the Modern World describes married love beautifully: “Authentic married love is caught up
into divine love and is governed and enriched by Christ’s redeeming power and
the saving activity of the church, so that
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argue about something that’s not even
ours?” That’s an incredibly important
transition in our attitude toward money
that we all must make.
It’s also important to understand that
how we view money is influenced by
who we are and where we’ve been. The
“who we are” question with money partly revolves around what I call our “money personality type.” Are you a saver or a
spender? Are you an organizer or do you
just sort of wing it? Are you a hoarder or
a giver? Typically, our money personality
type will reflect a few of the virtues and
a few of the vices. It’s up to us to grow in
the virtues and minimize the vices.
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Getting our priorities in order
The “where we’ve been” issue also has
a significant role in both our attitude
toward money and our actions with it. In
the classes I teach, one of the first discussion topics is the “heritage question,”
which includes consideration of what
our parents’ attitudes toward money were
growing up, how they communicated
about it, and how they managed it. Answering the heritage question may help
you better understand why you do what
you do with money — and it will be an
eye-opening and important discussion
for spouses to have.
While our personality types and
heritages will be flawed due to the consequences of original sin, we don’t need to
be held back by these weaknesses. With
grace, we strive to more closely imitate
Christ, putting on the virtues and casting off the vices.
The more we live out the call to holiness, the more our financial decisions
will be aligned with Godly principles
and our priorities properly ordered.
These are keys to building the unity
described in Genesis into our marriages
and having financial peace in our homes.
God love you!
Phil Lenahan is the president of Veritas
Financial Ministries and author of
7 Steps to Becoming Financially
Free. Contact him at veritasadmin@
veritasfinancialministries.com.
YO U R FA M I LY M AT T E R S
The other vocation crisis
We don’t just need more priests and nuns —
there’s also a shortage of holy marriages
I
’m at daily Mass with my girls, and we’re praying the prayers
of the faithful. My pastor at St. Andrew’s, Father Jack Shrum,
is offering my favorite intention: “Let us pray for holy vocations
to the priesthood, religious life and holy matrimony.” As usual, I
reverently refrain from cheering — but I always kind of want to.
Catholic matrimony as a vocation. Our
culture sees marriage as the means of
mutual emotional self-fulfillment. We
enter into it to meet our emotional
needs. The vocation to the sacrament
of matrimony, however, calls husbands
and wives to total mutual self-giving. It
gives spouses the proactive mission to
Holy matrimony is inhusbands and wives live out
love each other into heaven and to give
deed a vocation, a personal
in their sacrament. They are a
call from Jesus Christ to
living image of Christ’s nuptial life to the church and the world.
St. John Paul II’s apostolic exhorfollow him, grow in holicovenant with his bride, the
tation Familiaris Consortio puts it
ness, and serve him and
church, whom he loves paseloquently, declaring that spouses’
his church. And we have
sionately and eternally.
belonging to each other “is the real
a matrimony vocation
Is the matrimony vocation
representation … of the very real
crisis in the church. We are
crisis really a crisis of confirelationship of Christ with the church.
rightly concerned about
dence in this “forever” love?
Spouses are therefore the permanent reSARAH BARTEL
the lack of men being
Pope Francis spoke to this
ordained to the priesthood
fear when he met with 10,000 minder to the church of what happened
at St. James Cathedral this June. We all engaged couples from around the world on the cross.” We need more of these
matrimonial “reminders” around us
need to do our part to support vocaat St. Peter’s Square this past St. Valenas robust and effective signs of Christ’s
tions to the priesthood. We need to
tine’s Day. “Today so many people are
“forever” love!
pray for holy monks and nuns, brothers afraid of making definitive decisions,”
So let’s work for vocations to the
and sisters, to encourage young people
he said. “How, then, does one cure
priesthood and religious life. But also
to consider these vocations, and to sup- this fear of the ‘forever’? One cures it
consider telling a nephew, “You have
port those preparing for consecrated
day by day, by entrusting oneself to
what it takes to be
and ordained life.
the Lord Jesus in a
a good husband.
life that becomes a
The number of wedding
The fear of ‘forever’
Have you thought
daily spiritual journey,
But the number of wedding bells that made in steps — little
about being a
bells that will not be
will not be ringing at parishes through- steps, steps of shared
dad?” Or a teen
out our archdiocese this June — and
in your parish,
ringing at our parishes
growth.”
throughout the year — should cause
“You would make
He encouraged
this June should give us
us equal concern. Rates of Catholic
an amazing wife
couples to pray, “‘Give
weddings have steadily declined for
and mother!” Even
us this day our daily
concern.
decades. According to Georgetown’s
more importantly,
love’ … Teach us to
Center for Applied Research in the
we married couples
love one another, to
Apostolate, in 1956, 36 weddings were
must give a joyful and attractive witness
will good to the other! The more you
celebrated for every thousand Ameritrust in him, the more your love will be to the gift of our sacrament.
can Catholics. In 2009, that number
‘forever,’ able to be renewed, and it will Sarah Bartel, a member of St. Andrew
was under 13. This has huge implicaconquer every difficulty.”
Parish in Sumner, holds a doctorate
tions for the vitality of the Church on
in moral theology and ethics from
many levels.
Self-fulfillment or self-giving? The Catholic University of America,
Matrimony is a gift to the church.
where she specialized in marriage,
Pope Francis’ words point to the
family, sexual ethics and bioethics. Her
We urgently need the witness to endur- essential difference between secular
ing and faithful love that Catholic
marriage as a situation and sacramental website is www.drsarahbartel.com.
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C U LT U R E
SELFISH OR SHELLFISH?
What sea scallops taught me about the true meaning of Christian love
I
never used to like seafood. Particularly shellfish.
Extra-particularly raw shellfish. Which never
presented a problem on dates because no matter
what briny, subaquatic, alien thing he wanted
to ingest, I had the luxury of simply ordering
something else. Michelle Sessions DiFranco is a designer and the mother of
two children.
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Phillip Shippert
But when one of my seafoodloving dates became my fiancé, and
that particular fiancé became my
husband, a problem arose. Now
that we lived together, we no longer
could enjoy different selections at
dinner like during those happy days
of courtship, restaurants and separately
ordered dishes. Alas, now we cooked
for ourselves. One dish. To be shared.
MICHELLE
DIFRANCO
So, either I unhappily choked
down crustaceans, or he unhappily
lived without. What was I to do? I knew this issue would fester over time and risk metastasizing into a source of frustration between us. But there to give me guidance were some
of the greatest words of wisdom my mother ever shared with
me: “Love is a decision, not a feeling.” And how undeniable
that is. Most married couples will admit that the feelings of
love can evaporate after a while, and the act of love must take
its place. In my case, the warm fuzzy feelings were to be replaced by slimy, scaly action.
So, on our first wedding anniversary I broke the long seafood-less marathon of meals that I had been preparing for a full
year and fashioned a gourmet surf and turf of beef tenderloin
and, yes, sea scallops. He devoured them.
It’s amazing how love works. After an hour in the kitchen
with a curled upper lip, I was starting to bemoan the sacrifice
I was making so that he could have a great meal. But in the
end, the pleasure on his face, the humming as he ate and the
gratitude in his eyes were more of a dessert than any restaurant could have prepared had we dined out that night. He
was happy.
My mother’s definition of what Christian love really is never
fades. I see it in how my husband decides to love me when the
feeling isn’t there. And one thing is certain: When he decides to
love me in unselfish ways, I always notice the warm fuzzy feelings quickly return. As for those shellfish? Let’s just say I’ve
come to appreciate them more than I thought I ever would.
How much so? Enough to consider this recipe worth sharing.
Beef tenderloin and sea scallops
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1 1/4 cups balsamic vinegar
1 clove minced garlic
3 tablespoons butter (divided)
2 beef tenderloin fillets
8 large sea scallops
Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
Chopped parsley for garnish
In a small saucepan, bring balsamic vinegar and
minced garlic to a boil. Reduce heat to medium
and occasionally stir until reduced to half (18–20
minutes). Add a tablespoon of butter, stir and set
aside. Meanwhile, sprinkle tenderloin fillets and sea
scallops with salt and pepper. In a large skillet over
medium-high heat, melt a tablespoon of the butter.
Add fillets and cook for 3–4 minutes on each side
(for medium) or to desired doneness. Place tenderloin fillets on a plate and cover with foil to keep
warm. In the same skillet, melt the remaining butter
on high heat. Cook scallops for 2–3 minutes on each
side until caramelized. Plate each filet and drizzle
reduction sauce over top. Place four scallops over
each of the steaks and garnish with chopped parsley.
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Lessons from the land where Jesus walked
God descended to the sticks to call disciples, and he’s still calling
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here’s a reason the Holy Land has been called
“the fifth Gospel,” as I discovered during a
pilgrimage last Christmas to the land where Jesus
lived and walked. One beautiful, sunny, warm day
in Galilee, the Lord decided to break through to
me in a way I will never forget.
I was sitting on top of the Mount of
Beatitudes, listening. I listened to the
breeze and the birds in the branches of
the trees. Behind me I could hear the
steady stream of pilgrims and tourists
going in and out of the church. Mainly,
though, I was listening for the voice of
the Lord in the Gospels as I read the
stories of what Jesus had done in Galilee.
What a place to read them! Before me
MICHAEL DION
was the Sea of Galilee, surrounded by
hills and plains that had changed little
since Jesus’ time. On my left, about a half-hour walk away,
just off the shore, I could see the ruins of Capernaum, where
excavations have found what seems to be St. Peter’s house. A
20-minute walk to my right would take me to where Jesus
called Peter and Andrew while they washed their fishing nets.
A little farther on was the place Jesus cooked his disciples
breakfast after the Resurrection, which itself is close to the site
of the multiplication of loaves and fishes.
God was here in the flesh
As I read each Gospel story and looked toward the place
it happened, I pictured it in my mind. Jesus calling the
disciples. Jesus teaching the crowd from a boat. Jesus walking
through the hills, praying and conversing and enjoying
the company of his friends. Jesus in the little synagogue of
Capernaum, teaching the neighbors he’d gotten to know
while staying with Peter.
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As I read and prayed and meditated, the realization hit me:
It is radical to be a Christian, to believe in the truth of the
Incarnation!
Galilee is not a large area, and from the top of that
mountain I could see the places where many of the Gospel
stories occurred. It was never an important place. Capernaum
was probably smaller than my high school. And yet Jesus,
the man who Peter and the other disciples claimed was
God, lived in that little town.
I began to realize why he was disregarded and rejected. In
many ways, Jesus was a profoundly ordinary man. For most
people in the area, he may have performed remarkable signs,
but he was still just a neighbor.
The ridiculous humility of God
To believe that an infinite being, the creator of the universe, would show up in the boonies is almost ridiculous.
And on top of that, he was killed like a common criminal.
To claim that Jesus is God is nearly unbelievable. No wonder
St. Paul called the proclamation of Christ crucified “a stumbling
block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles.” (1 Corinthians 1:23)
But that’s not the full story, because the men and women
Jesus met experienced something new that no one else ever had.
They were healed and transformed in a way not possible by
merely human means. They discovered new love and freedom.
And after Jesus’ resurrection, they realized it was something
more: a new relationship with God, a God so humble that he
crossed the infinite chasm of sin to dwell in a remote, unimportant land with friends that he loved. A God who desired
to bring that love to all people.
Sitting on the Mount of Beatitudes looking over the Sea of
Galilee I realized that, like Peter and Andrew so many years
before, Jesus was calling me to be close to him. He was calling
me to experience anew the joy and love of being his friend and
disciple.
Michael Dion is a seminarian for the Archdiocese of Seattle
studying at the Pontifical North American College in Rome.
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A S K FAT H E R
Can divorced Catholics receive Communion?
The issue of divorce can be a source of confusion
and pain for many Catholics
Q
My husband and I recently divorced after 23 years of
marriage. After being married in the Catholic Church our
relationship started out strong, but as the years went
by we became estranged and lived as strangers in the same
house. We decided to divorce each other last year. I heard that
the church teaches that divorced Catholics should not receive
Communion. Is this true?
A
Thank you for your excellent — and difficult — question!
Recent studies on marriage show that, while their rates
of divorce are significant, U.S. Catholics are less likely to
divorce than people of other religious affiliations. But divorce
does present the church with a significant challenge. More
than 11 million divorced Catholics like you — about 28 percent
of those Catholics who have ever married — are in need of the
church’s pastoral outreach.
To understand this teaching, we first must understand what happens when
a sacrament is celebrated. A
sacrament is a visible sign of
God’s love that forms a permanent spiritual reality. This
is easy to understand when
we look at the sacraments
themselves. Once the bread
FATHER CAL
and wine become the body
CHRISTIANSEN
and blood of Jesus Christ,
there is no ritual or rite to turn it back
into bread and wine again.
A more difficult question
Once someone is baptized or conYour question, however, opens the
firmed, there is no way to “unbaptize”
door to a more difficult and sensitive
or “unconfirm” them. Once a sacraone, where much of the confusion lies.
ment has been celebrated validly withWhat about divorced and remarried
out impediments, a new, permanent
Catholics? While an individual who
and unbreakable spiritual reality is
is divorced may receive Communion,
divorced and remarried Catholics must brought into existence.
first have their prior marriage declared
‘Sealed by God’
invalid, unless their prior spouse
The same thing happens within
is deceased.
This admittedly is a difficult teaching the marriage bond. The Catechism
of the Catholic Church teaches that
of our church because many of our
“The consent by which the spouses
divorced faithful choose to remarry.
Getting back to your
question, the quick answer
is yes they can. The obstacles
preventing a divorced individual from receiving
holy Communion — such
as serious/mortal sin or
excommunication — apply
to all Catholics. The act of
divorce does not by itself
prevent an individual from
receiving the Eucharist.
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mutually give and receive one another
is sealed by God … the marriage bond
has been established by God himself in
such a way that a marriage concluded
and consummated between baptized
persons can never be dissolved.”
(CCC 1639-1640)
Once marriage is celebrated validly
and consummated, a marriage bond
comes to be, a permanent and unbreakable sign of God’s love for us.
That’s why the church teaches that
when someone divorces and remarries
without first having the prior marriage
declared invalid, the original marriage
still exists (if both parties are still
living). This understanding is based
on the words of Jesus himself: “I say
to you, whoever divorces his wife
(unless the marriage is unlawful) and
marries another commits adultery.”
(Matthew 19:9)
This perennial teaching was upheld
recently by the church when Cardinal
Gerhard Müller, the prefect of the
Congregation for the Doctrine of
the Faith, following the consistent
teachings of Pope John Paul II, Pope
Benedict XVI and, now, Pope Francis,
affirmed that divorced and remarried
Catholics whose prior marriages
have not been declared invalid or
dissolved cannot be admitted to receive
Communion.
Recognizing the need for compassion
and sensitivity, he also reaffirmed
the responsibility of the church and
its ministers to reach out pastorally to
divorced and remarried individuals,
encouraging them and inviting them to
participate in the life of the church in
other ways.
May God’s blessings be with you
today and always!
Father Cal Christiansen is the pastor of
St. Pius X Parish in Mountlake Terrace.
Send your questions for “Ask Father” to
[email protected].
A C AT H O L I C V I E W
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What June can teach us
about the Christian life
Don’t act surprised: It’s going to rain,
and you’re going to sin
I
t’s often said that a mark of insanity is doing
the same thing over and over again in the futile
hope that this time the results will be different. I
sometimes think of this when
I consider some of my naively
optimistic fellow Western
Washingtonians — and someone
else I know.
A lot of Western Washingtonians
are relatively recent arrivals from
elsewhere. As such, they naturally
bring with them the assumption that
MARK SHEA
the climate here will obey the normal
rules of meteorology. So, when June arrives, people
assume that things are supposed to get summery.
Then it rains.
And rains.
It is then that the race of Western Washingtonians
bifurcates into two classes: those who navigate by
empirical observation vs. those who navigate by ideology.
I am staunchly a member of the first group. Having lived
here all my life, I know perfectly well that June in Western
Washington is a rainy month.
But many people, year after year, do not allow such inconvenient facts to get in the way of their personal dogma that
summer must and should begin in June. Thus, year after
year, it pours rain through most of June and, year after year,
a large, ideology-driven segment of the Washington population
blinks its big blue eyes and says with surprise, “What an unusually rainy June it is this year!”
Perpetually surprised at myself
I shouldn’t complain, though. After all, I am perpetually
surprised at my own ability to sin. I start each day like Bullwinkle, vaguely thinking “this time for sure” I will do the
right thing. I end each day ruefully looking back on the dumb
things I have said and done. “How unusual for me to do such
things,” I remark to myself, as though it were unusual.
I’m a convert, first from garage-band suburban paganism,
then to evangelical nondenominational American Christianity,
and finally to the Catholic faith. When I was an
evangelical, this tendency to slide back into sin on a daily
basis worried me greatly. We believed “once saved, always
saved.” That is, if you are a real Christian, then it is absolutely impossible to lose your salvation.
Naturally, this provokes the question, “What about those
who sin or even reject Jesus after becoming Christians?” The
easy, breezy answer to this was, “Oh, they were never really
Christians at all.”
This doctrine, which is supposed to engender a soothing
sense of “eternal security,” always had the practical
effect of engendering a gnawing sense of eternal anxiety.
For, of course, the $64,000 question was, “Am I really
a Christian?” Every sin I committed told against that, just
as every raindrop told against naive optimism about June.
What was I to do about this routine fact of life?
Falling down and getting up
The answer came in the form of a story I once heard about
a man who, traveling through Europe, stopped one day at
a Benedictine monastery. He asked one of the monks,
“What do you do all day?”
The monk replied, “We fall down and we get up.”
The monk, I finally realized, was in touch with human
reality. I, in contrast, was dominated by ideology — and
pride. The ideology, adhered to despite universal experience,
was that disciples of Jesus ought somehow to be immune
to sin. The pride, clung to because of sheer vanity, was
that I — marvelous I — could surely not be capable of
sinning like ordinary people do. Why, that would mean
I was ordinary too!
That is when frequent confession suddenly began to make
sense. For the reality — as distinct from the ideology —
of life as a Christian is that we do indeed fall down and
get up.
Therefore I should not waste time speculating about
whether I — or worse yet someone else — was “really”
Christian. Rather, I should recognize that salvation is not
a certainty but a hope, get off my duff and be reconciled —
again. Curiously, I found I became much more secure in
my relationship with God once I was no longer certain I’m
going to heaven.
Reality trumps ideology every time.
Mark Shea is a member of Blessed Sacrament Parish in Seattle.
His blog “Catholic and Enjoying It!” is at www.patheos.com/
blogs/markshea.
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SAC R E D STO RY
Why bother with spiritual discernment?
Discovering how our hearts have been broken allows the divine physician
to heal us so we can produce fruit that endures to eternity
S
ome who have followed past
columns in this series may wonder
about the practical importance of
spiritual discernment in our daily lives.
Does the spiritual battle between the
divine-inspirer and the enemy of human
nature make any difference in how I live
my life?
The first strategy is direct fear and “panic attacks.”
If you stay committed to the process of uprooting
vices, sins, addictions and destructive habits from
your life and heart, you may suffer waves of fear and
panic. These are meant to turn you away from the
healing process.
Those committed to growing in holiness will also
confront a second strategy: narcissism and false values masquerading as true love and authentic values.
FATHER WILLIAM
The enemy can portray our narcissism as authentic
WATSON
love and vices as positive values, but these false
A story reported in the news media might help. A
loves are only mirages for our parched and anxious
teenager won a court case, forcing a public high school to rehearts. Instead of providing lasting peace, these illusions merely
move a banner in the school’s gym that referred to “Our Heavintensify our longings, self-deception and self-preoccupation.
enly Father.” The student, a baptized Roman Catholic, stopped
The third line of attack is directed at the spiritual and
believing in God at age 10 when the student’s mother fell ill.
psychological wounds that make you most vulnerable. The
enemy’s purpose is to keep your emotional and intellectual deA wounded, broken heart
fenses firmly in place, hardening your judgments. This keeps
“I had always been told that if you pray, God will always be
your conscience dark and your true human nature hidden. This
there when you need him,” the student said. “And it didn’t
third strategy is perhaps the most insidious. This is the way the
happen for me, and I doubted it had happened for anybody enemy manipulated the young “atheist,” and it is often the way
else. So yeah, I think that was just like the last step, and after
the enemy of human nature manipulates us as well.
that I just really didn’t believe any of it.”
Much of the media framed the story as a legal and constiFruit that endures to eternity
tutional fight to prevent state-sponsored religion. But anothLike the teenage crusader, many people fighting apparer plotline can be detected in this story. The student is opposently noble causes might only be terrified, wounded children
ing religious expression because of deep childhood wounds.
running away from their pain. One thinks of St. Paul’s attacks
At the bottom of this story is a deeply wounded heart. The
on the church before his conversion. At the opening of the
student’s mother fell ill and “God did not listen” to a prayer for
Acts of the Apostles, Saul witnessed the murder of Stephen,
healing. If we look only on the surface, we see a determined
and went on to crusade against all followers of the Way.
and fearless youth standing up against the wrath of classmates (see Acts 9:1-2)
and townspeople to defend constitutional rights.
The enemy of human nature manipulated Saul’s anger,
This may be the beginning of a lifelong crusade, and the
cloaking his homicidal rage in religious justifications. Fear
enemy of human nature will urge this person on in this fight,
was likely at the root of Saul’s rage. It is possible that fear
distracted from the interior wound so it cannot be healed. And was also a driving force in St. Ignatius’ life when, against the
so it is with all of us.
advice of others, he engaged in a futile battle that nearly ended
Unless we “wake up” to our spiritual nature, we are blind to our his life.
emotional and intellectual defense systems. The defenses of pride
Much of the violence perpetrated between persons, groups
and their adult intellectual justifications conceal the fear and pain
and countries in our own day is generated by wounded
of a 10-year-old child’s broken heart.
hearts seeking revenge for their suffering (consciously or
otherwise).
Three lines of attack
In your own discernment, observe how the enemy of huThe enemy of human nature uses three principal attack
man nature instigates intellectual arguments, fosters a sense
strategies to obstruct our spiritual progress. All three use ele- of injustice and promotes defiance against legitimate authorments of our life story as weapons against us: our unconscious
ity. Ask the Lord, “What motivates my crusade (or crusades)?
fears, our psychological and spiritual vulnerabilities and our
Where do I hurt?” Ask the Lord to help you heal, receive forlong-standing addictions.
giveness and forgive others so that you may spend the energy of
Ignatius learned the three attack strategies during his own your life producing fruit that endures to eternity.
conversion process. These strategies are designed to conJesuit Father William M. Watson is the founder of Seattle’s
found, discourage and deceive individuals committed to spiriSacred Story Institute (www.sacredstory.net). Read past
tual growth. The primary weapon in all three strategies is fear.
columns at www.NWCatholic.org/spirituality/sacred-story.
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SPEAK IN TONGUES?
Inside the Catholic charismatic renewal
By Kevin Birnbaum
I
f you’ve ever had questions, doubts
or suspicions about the Catholic
charismatic renewal, you’re in good
company. When a reporter asked Pope
Francis last summer about the movement
— which is often associated with the laying
on of hands, prophecy, praying in tongues
and very expressive praise and worship
— he answered that, a few decades ago,
“I had no time for them. Once, speaking
about them, I said, ‘These people confuse a
liturgical celebration with samba lessons!’”
Stephen Brashear
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( E N E S PA Ñ O L : W W W. N W C AT H O L I C . O R G )
But as he learned more, Pope Francis came to regret his
snarky dismissal of the Catholic charismatic renewal, which
began in 1967 during a retreat for students at Pittsburgh’s
Duquesne University.
“Now I think that this movement does much good for the
church, overall,” he said. “In Buenos Aires, I met frequently
with them and once a year I celebrated a Mass with all of
them in the cathedral. I have always supported them, after I
was converted, after I saw the good they were doing.”
But exactly what good are they doing? It has been estimated that 10 percent of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics
identify with the charismatic renewal, yet to many the movement remains mysterious or even suspect. Is it a hotbed of
superstition, wishful thinking and emotional excess, or — as
Pope Francis suggests — something much more profound?
What is the Catholic charismatic renewal all about?
A life-changing ‘heart transplant’
When the fledgling Catholic charismatic renewal hit
Seattle in the late 1960s, Virginia King was a student at Holy
Names Academy. Her younger sister soon started attending
charismatic prayer meetings at Blessed Sacrament Church.
“But I wasn’t immediately attracted to it,” King said. “In fact,
I was immediately not attracted to it.”
Even as her mother and other siblings got involved and started hosting
prayer meetings in their living room,
King resisted, insisting, “I’m a good
Catholic. I go to church on Sunday. I
don’t need all this other stuff.”
But she did need something, because
she was desperately unhappy. As life
went on, she did all the right things —
Virginia King
going to college, getting married,
What is ‘baptism in the Holy Spirit’?
having kids — thinking they would
Most fundamentally, the charismatic renewal is about fostermake her happy, but nothing worked.
ing the experience of “baptism in the Holy Spirit.” What does
“I was getting more and more miserable. And then I looked
that mean?
at my sister and I could see that she was really happy, that she
“Baptism in the Spirit can most concisely be called a
had a joy in her that was what I was seeking … and so then I
personal Pentecost,” said Virginia King, the recently retired
started to pay attention to what she was saying.”
executive director of the Western Washington Catholic
King began to read some of the books her sister recomCharismatic Renewal (www.wwccr.org), a resource center
mended and, at the urging
established in 1977.
of a Pentecostal Protestant
It’s a personal reception of
neighbor, tried to develop a
the gift of the Holy Spirit, she
HISPANICS AND THE CHARISMATIC RENEWAL
more personal relationship
said. Of course, Catholics
with Jesus. One day in 1976
The charismatic renewal is especially important
have already received the
she was brought to what she
among Hispanic Catholics. More than 60
Holy Spirit in baptism and
called her “moment of surpercent of the world’s 120 million charismatic
confirmation. “But the way
render.”
Catholics live in Latin America, according to
we’ve come to understand it
“I was really, really unhappy
International Catholic Charismatic Renewal
is that baptism in the Spirit
in my marriage … and I said
Services.
is a reinvigorating of those
to God, ‘I want out of this
In Western Washington, Julio
graces. The graces are given,
marriage, I want to run
Pocón, a member of Federal
but we’re not always receptive
away, but I don’t think that’s
Way’s St. Theresa Parish and
to them.”
what you want for me.’ And I
WWCCR’s Hispanic Planning
Too often, the graces and
said, ‘I don’t love my husCommittee, estimates
gifts poured out by the Holy
band — in fact, I think I hate
that 90 percent of active
Spirit in the sacraments lie
him — but would you give
Catholic Hispanics have had
buried and inert, like chocome your love for him?’ And in
some experience with the
late syrup that’s sunk to the
that moment I was filled with
charismatic renewal.
bottom of a glass of milk,
love for my husband, and it
said Father Jim Northrop,
was definitely a life-trans“The Hispanic renewal in
Julio Pocón
the spiritual director for
forming moment — I call it
our archdiocese is huge,”
WWCCR. Baptism in the
my heart transplant.”
said Virginia King. “At least half of our [parishIt was an “immediate transHoly Spirit is like a spoon that
based charismatic] prayer groups are Spanishformation,”
she said. “Prior to
stirs up the gifts, unleashing
speaking prayer groups, and they are large. A
that
I
was
having
a hard time
their transformative power
small Spanish-speaking prayer group would
just being in the same room
in our lives.
have 50 people in it. The large ones have 300
with my husband, and after
Often this happens during
or 400 people coming every week.”
that I looked forward to seeing
a charismatic renewal retreat,
him and being around him.”
with people laying hands on
King points to that
a person and praying for him
experience as her baptism
or her to receive baptism in
in the Holy Spirit, and it completely changed her relationship
the Holy Spirit. But it can happen anywhere, at any time. The
with God.
key is to be totally open to God, and simply to ask.
Before, she said, “I felt that God was far off and that my
“You have to have an expectant faith,” said Father
Northrop. “You have to believe in your heart that God really duty to God was to go to Mass and to follow the precepts of
the church. Whereas afterwards, God was very near, God
loves you and wants to pour out this grace upon you.”
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cared about me, he cared about my marriage, he cared about
my husband, he cared about my kids. There was a realization that God loved and cared for us personally, and that my
response to that was to be grateful and to respond to his grace,
to become more like him.”
‘The most amazing, heavenly feeling’
Not all ‘spiritual warm fuzzies’
While the initial experience of baptism in the Holy Spirit can
be powerful, and spiritual gifts like tongues may be dramatic,
they’re not nearly as important as what ought to grow out of
them — the fruit of the Spirit: “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control,” to quote
St. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians.
As a freshman at the University of Idaho in 1988, Father Jim
Northrop attended a Life in the Spirit charismatic seminar. On
the fifth night, people prayed over him for the release of the Holy
Spirit in his life. He felt peaceful, but not much else.
But, he said, “as the weeks went on, I just noticed a number
of things changing: a greater joyfulness in my life, a love for
Scripture, a deeper awareness of the Mass.” His experience of
the Bible and the liturgy suddenly “coming alive” is common
SPIRITUAL GIFTS IN SCRIPTURE
Skeptical about some of the more spectacular
spiritual gifts associated with the Catholic
charismatic renewal? Take it up with St. Paul:
“There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the
same Spirit; there are different forms of service
but the same Lord; there are different workings
but the same God who produces all of them in
everyone. To each individual the manifestation of
the Spirit is given for some benefit. To one is given
through the Spirit the expression of wisdom; to
another the expression of knowledge according
to the same Spirit; to another faith by the same
Spirit; to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit;
to another mighty deeds; to another prophecy; to
another discernment of spirits; to another varieties
of tongues; to another interpretation of tongues.
But one and the same Spirit produces all of these,
distributing them individually to each person as
he wishes.” (1 Corinthians 12:4-11)
among charismatic Catholics.
The burst of exuberant fervor following baptism in the Holy
Spirit must be nurtured — it can’t be just “a one-time thing,”
Father Northrop said. “We can grow cold, the flame can start
going out, so we have to have ways to fan the flame,” such as
spiritual reading, regular reception of the sacraments, and
participation in parish-based charismatic prayer groups.
Often some settling down and growing up is necessary.
“There’s not always going to be spiritual warm fuzzies.”
But the power of the Holy Spirit to transform people’s
lives is very real, Father Northrop said, and it’s not just for
a special subset of Catholics called “charismatics.”
“God is not a stingy God. He wants to bless everyone
with this gift.”
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The experience of baptism in the Holy Spirit varies greatly
from person to person. Some people are overcome by emotion.
Some have vivid mystical visions. Some feel nothing.
Bill Odell, now a member of Everett’s
Immaculate Conception Parish, had a
Pentecostal friend at a Bible study offer
to pray over him for baptism in the Holy
Spirit shortly after Odell’s conversion from
atheism to Christianity in 1994.
“His prayer took 30 seconds, he said
amen, I said amen, and I just felt so
awkward,” Odell recalled. He apologized
to his friend and admitted, “I didn’t feel a
thing as you prayed for me.”
Bill Odell
But as he got in his car to drive home,
Odell felt something strange — a growing pressure in the
back of his throat. He opened his mouth and was stunned to
hear a handful of “totally foreign” words pop out.
“With those words came this joy like a bubble that was just
coming up from some place so deep in me I didn’t even know
existed,” he said. “I began to pray in what the Bible tells us is
the gift of tongues. I didn’t know what I was saying, but I knew
I was praising God.”
Sue Gallwas, a member of Sumner’s
St. Andrew Parish and now WWCCR’s
executive director, was introduced to the
charismatic renewal when a friend invited
her to a conference in 2001. She didn’t
know what to expect, but she had a heart
open to God.
“So Saturday night when they were
doing praise and worship, my friend
just put her hand on my shoulder and
I was baptized in the Holy Spirit,”
Sue Gallwas
she said. “And the Holy Spirit and
Jesus came in and erased — I call it the holy eraser — and
they erased the shame in my heart. It was the most amazing,
heavenly feeling ever, like I was in a different place.”
F E AT U R E S T O R Y
ACTIVE
IN FAITH
For Sister Eileen
Walsh, ministry
is even more fruitful
after 50 years
Stephen Brashear
By Anna Weaver
E
ach month, Tacoma Dominican Sister Eileen
Walsh writes letters to people she’s never
met — death row inmates at Washington State
Penitentiary in Walla Walla and two inmates in other
states. They include references to sports and her life
as a nun, words of encouragement, Scripture verses
and tie-ins to God’s love. The letters are a part of her
ongoing advocacy against the death penalty.
One inmate recently wrote asking to get on her “mailing
list” because he was “the new kid on the block” and looking
for moral support like that which his prisonmate said he’d
received through Sister Eileen’s letters.
The petite, 71-year-old, Irish-American nun with a sweet
voice and sense of humor said she has always opposed the
death penalty, but she became more active in her advocacy
in the last two decades. Sister Eileen realizes capital punishment is a divisive issue among Catholics and in wider
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society, but she considers it a pro-life issue since “it’s taking
another life; it’s violence.”
“We’re kind of playing God in that we’re telling someone
when their journey is going to be over,” Sister Eileen said.
“And I think that’s God’s role, not our role.”
“I think it’s really hard for people to separate the person from the crimes,” she added. But the nun aims to do
that with her letter-writing. She gets inspiration from the
inmates’ responses. Some have written saying she’s helped
them have inner conversions. One man said he’d shared with
his wife the Scripture passages Sister Eileen sent him.
“I think we as sisters are called to be prophets,” she said.
“We can’t always agree with the mainstream. You need to
work with those on the fringe, empower the powerless and
be the voice for the voiceless.”
‘A real go-getter’
Besides working against capital punishment, Sister Eileen
also supports the Tacoma Dominicans’ anti-human trafficking efforts and regularly calls the state legislative hotline to
support certain bills and issues. This issue-oriented ministry
is the latest chapter in her 50 years as a Tacoma Dominican.
Courstesy Sister Eileen Walsh
Eileen Walsh was born in Chicago and is the oldest of 11
children. When she was 3 or 4, her father left the Navy and
Sister Eileen Walsh is one of more than
moved the family to the tiny city of Roy, near Tacoma, and
30 religious sisters celebrating special
later to Tacoma proper. Eileen went to Catholic schools and
anniversaries this year. Read more about them
had Tacoma Dominicans among her teachers.
at www.NWCatholic.org.
When Eileen finished her freshman year of high school,
the Walshes moved to Anaheim, Calif. But Eileen kept in
touch with the Dominicans and returned to Washington
She believes you “don’t dwell on what you can’t do but
after graduating, having discerned a call to religious life.
dwell on what you can do” and takes inspiration from
She became Sister Mary Esther when she took temporary
St. Thérèse of Lisieux in doing “little things well” and “with
vows with the Tacoma Dominicans on Aug. 4, 1964, at
great love.”
Mount St. Dominic Convent. She later changed her name
When she couldn’t attend Catholic Advocacy Day this
back to Eileen in the post-Vatican II era when keeping bapyear, she prayed throughout the day for the participants
tismal names became common.
at the state Capitol. She helps with grief
Her first 13 years as a nun were spent
counseling by calling and writing families
teaching at Holy Cross School in Tacoma,
“I’m a person who illness who have lost loved ones and tries to be
Our Lady of the Lake School in Seattle,
an encouraging force to others in a Parhas made better, and I
and California Catholic schools. Later,
kinson’s support group she belongs to.
she taught religious education, worked as
Sister Eileen makes sure to exercise
think
I
can
teach
others
a grief counselor, facilitated Alzheimer’s
daily and loves the rhythm of prayer that
support groups, and spent many years as a
through my illness.”
surrounds her at St. Joseph’s Residence.
hospital and hospice chaplain.
She starts and ends her day with the
“I would say the hallmark of Sister
Liturgy of the Hours, is in a rosary group
Eileen Walsh’s life has been her care and concern for
and goes to daily Mass along with other
the people of God and the fact that she’s able to stay
devotional activities.
connected to so many people in her life through her
She cherishes friendships with fellow nuns and staffers at
various ministries,” said Sister Sharon Casey, president
St. Joseph’s, loves playing bingo, watching sports, and dropof the Tacoma Dominicans.
ping puns and jokes into conversation. She finds herself feelProvidence Sister Joan Campbell, who worked with Sister
ing even closer to God in this chapter of life, seeing him as
Eileen and others to craft a corporate stance against the
her companion and calling him Emmanuel, “God is with us.”
death penalty for the Providence Sisters, calls Sister Eileen
Her humor in retirement is firmly intact. St. Joseph’s
“a real go-getter” who takes the time to thoroughly
staffers know her as the nun who acted the parts
study and research an issue.
of a disoriented and an injured resident in two
“Really anything she puts her heart into, she’s
employee orientation videos.
200 percent into,” she said.
To the Alzheimer’s support group she once
facilitated
and still keeps in touch with,
A gift in a diagnosis
she’s
Sister
Rainbow, nicknamed for the
Today, Sister Eileen’s advocacy work is
multi-hued
clown suit she’d wear on spedone mostly from St. Joseph’s Residence,
cial
occasions.
She also jokes you can
a retirement home for religious sisters
call
her
Sherlock
Holmes when she’s
on a West Seattle hilltop overlooking
looking
for
and
sending
along news
the city. That’s because she was diagstories
to
the
human
trafficking
and
nosed with Parkinson’s disease in the
death
penalty
committees
she’s
on.
late 1990s.
For
her
golden
jubilee
celebration
The illness has slowed her down
in June, she’ll be wearing the same
some, keeping her from driving
white dress and red jewelry she
and requiring her to use a walker,
wore while strutting down the
which she calls her sidekick. But
runway during last December’s
Sister Eileen remains upbeat, folProvidence Mount St. Vincent
lowing her HEAL motto, which
“Silver Bells” charity luncheon.
stands for hope and humor,
“I don’t call it retired, it’s
exercise, attitude, and love for
‘retread,’”
she said. “I’m a person
God, others, self and the world.
who illness has made better,
and I think I can teach others
A young Sister Eileen Walsh
through my illness.”
in the 1960s.
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F E AT U R E S T O R Y
JOURNEY TO THE LITTLE-KNOWN
Enrich your summer travels with some Catholic history,
quaint churches and camaraderie
By Jean Parietti
iking wooded trails, exploring an ocean
beach or camping beside a trout stream
are great antidotes to the rush of daily life.
Yes, vacation can be good for the soul —
but even more so if you stay connected to
your faith.
Wherever you’re headed in the archdiocese
this summer, you don’t have to look far for
a church with an interesting or inspiring story.
Going to the coast? Check out the rustic,
110-year-old chapel a stone’s throw from
a Lewis and Clark campsite along the
Columbia River.
Planning to hike in the Cascades? Stop in the
St. Mary, Coupeville
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G.
Mo
rris
Whidbey Island’s first
Catholic church was
actually built in 1890
as a Congregational
church. In 1932, the
Congregationalists
no longer needed the
church and rented it
to the island’s growing Catholic community, which named it
St. Mary. The church
building was purchased by the Seattle
Diocese in 1934.
G
St. Mary’s is part of a
National Historic District as
well as the Ebey’s Landing
National Historical Reserve. Stroll
down to the scenic Coupeville waterfront and stop
at the Alexander blockhouse (next to the Island
County Museum). There you’ll see a preserved
portion of the large cross that Native Americans
erected to greet missionary Father Francis
Norbert Blanchet during his visit in 1840.
Mass is celebrated at St. Mary’s (a mission of St.
Augustine Parish in Oak Harbor) every Sunday and
once during the week. www.staugustineoh.org/smcc
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foothills for Mass in a former logging camp
bunkhouse, and pause at an outdoor shrine.
Is a day trip more your speed? Seek out
the state’s oldest standing church, overlooking Puget Sound in Washington’s first
incorporated town.
Wherever you go this summer vacation, make
a special stop to reflect and connect with other
Catholics.
It can be good for the soul.
Consider visiting these mission churches
during your trips around the archdiocese.
(Visit www.NWCatholic.org for a map of
these sites.)
St. John Vianney, Darrington
From its front steps, St. John Vianney Mission offers a
spectacular view of Whitehorse Mountain in the North
Cascades. The Catholic community here took root
around 1915, when the Campbell family convinced a
priest to travel from Snohomish each month to celebrate
Mass — a trip requiring a train ride, transport by horse
and buggy, and an overnight stay.
A mission church was established in 1916. Today’s
church was created from a logging company bunkhouse
— purchased for $300 by the local Catholic Women’s
Club in 1941 — and a portable classroom. In 2009, Campbell Hall was built, named in honor of the early families (a
son, Jack Campbell, is in his 90s and still a parishioner).
Parishioners have created much of the church’s artwork and furnishings, including the “Healing
Shrine of the Living Water” by
Marv Kastning, a bronze artist.
The cross-shaped outdoor
shrine mixes flowing water
with Catholic and native
symbols.
The small faith community at St. John Vianney
celebrates Mass and
hosts brunch (visitors
welcome) every Sunday.
For current Mass times,
check the website, www.
stillycatholic.org.
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WHILE DISCOVERING SOME
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HIDDEN GEMS, DON’T
OVERLOOK A PAIR OF ITS
CROWN JEWELS.
Spend some time at
St. James Cathedral in
Seattle and the ProtoCathedral of St. James
the Greater in Vancouver.
Learn more about these
historic churches at
www.NWCatholic.org/
magazine/761-pilgrimages.
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The little church known as St. Mary McGowan sits along the Columbia
River on Highway 101, near the Astoria bridge. The site is
downstream from a one-time Chinook Indian village
and upriver from the spot where Lewis and Clark
camped for 10 days in 1805.
A Catholic community was established in
1848; the current church was built in 1904
by P.J. McGowan. Now under the care of
St. Mary Parish in Seaview, the chapel has
a crucifix, candleholders, picture of Mary
and tower bell dating to its early years.
Today, St. Mary is surrounded by an
interpretative walking trail, part of the
National Park Service’s Lewis and Clark
Middle Village/Station Camp site. Mass is
offered Sunday evenings from Memorial Day
to Labor Day. There is no electricity and no
running water (read: no restrooms, so come preR
pared), but services are available a short distance
away. www.stmarysv.org
Immaculate Conception Church, the state’s oldest standing church,
served as a headquarters for the missionary priests bringing Christianity to native tribes in the Puget Sound area during the 1850s.
Once called St. Michael the Archangel, the church was actually built
twice — the first time in 1855 by Father Louis Rossi and soldiers at Fort
Steilacoom, the second time in 1864 when it was moved to its present
location. Soldiers and settlers dismantled the building, board by board,
and transported the materials 1.5 miles by wagon to the young city of
Steilacoom.
After the church was reconstructed at its new site, Bishop Augustin Blanchet erroneously dedicated it to the Immaculate Conception,
according to a history from its sister parish, St. John Bosco in Lakewood.
Mass at Immaculate Conception is offered every Sunday morning.
www.stjbosco.org
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St. Peter Mission was built in 1861 on Suquamish tribal land near
Agate Pass, the waterway between the present-day Kitsap Peninsula
and Bainbridge Island. The church sat near Old Man House State Park,
once the home of Chief Sealth (Seattle), the leader of the Suquamish
and Duwamish tribes (and Seattle’s namesake),
who invited priests to establish a mission there in 1840.
Rebuilt in 1870, St. Peter’s was moved to its present site in 1908.
The church was remodeled, enlarged and re-dedicated in 1936. It
has a hand-carved wood altar that includes depictions of the Last
Supper and the Lamb of God. The adjoining Suquamish-owned
cemetery is the final resting place of Chief Sealth, who converted
to Catholicism late in life. He died in 1866.
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D E L A R ZO B I S P O
( I N E N G L I S H : PA G E 4 )
¡Ultreya! ¡Más allá! Sigue el camino del Señor
La fe en Cristo traza un claro derrotero en la sinuosa peregrinación de la vida
Y
o soy de las personas que disfrutan
ser inspiradas. Puede inspirarme una
edificante biografía, una lectura espiritual,
una película conmovedora, un sermón
retador, o la presencia de una persona
sobresaliente. Esas inspiraciones me sirven
como motivación en mi jornada.
ARZOBISPO
Sigue al Señor Jesús que es el Camino, la Verdad
y la Vida. El Nuevo Testamento es absolutamente
claro acerca de lo central de nuestra fe cristiana:
Jesucristo es el único mediador entre Dios y la
humanidad, el único salvador del mundo, el único
camino hacia el Padre. Busca conocerlo vaciando
tu corazón en la oración, siguiendo sus caminos e
imitando su ejemplo de sacrificio amoroso.
Este es el camino del amor para el que tú y yo
fuimos creados por Dios, y Dios nos lo ha revelado
completamente en Cristo Jesús. Aférrate a Él. Como
dijo su madre, “Hagan lo que Él les diga”.
J. PETER SARTAIN
Desde la época medieval, el lugar más famoso
de peregrinaciones en España ha sido Santiago de
Compostela, en honor de Santiago Apóstol, el patrón de la
arquidiócesis. Aún hoy día, católicos de toda Europa hacen
Nunca es demasiado tarde para volver a
la ruta en auto, en bicicleta o a pié. Antiguamente, cuando
empezar
los peregrinos pasaban por los poblados en su camino hacia
Mantente cerca de los sacramentos de la Iglesia. Nosotros
Compostela, los aldeanos les gritaban, “¡Ultreya!” — “¡Más
los católicos estamos doblemente bendecidos porque somos el
allá!” — como porra de inspiración y ánimo. Sabían que las
pueblo de la palabra y los sacramentos. En los siete sacramentos
gracias que les aguardaban al llegar a su destino valían la
viene a nosotros y continúa su ministerio de salvación en la
dura jornada.
Iglesia. Alejarnos de los sacramentos es privarnos del alimento
que más necesitamos. Estar lejos de los sacramentos es perder
Bendiciones a lo largo de la jornada
encuentros cara a cara con Cristo.
Entre los cristianos, siempre ha existido la idea de que ese
Téngan esperanza. La esperanza no es lo mismo que el
tipo de peregrinaciones traen bendiciones. Por gracia de Dios,
deseo, como tampoco lo es el rezar para que las posibilidades
ya tenemos en nuestras vidas la recompensa de nuestro destino, de que las cosas sucedan como las “espero”, sucedan. Por el
el cual no es un lugar sino un estado de eterna unidad con
contrario, la esperanza es la confianza en la verdad que Dios
Dios. Siempre estamos iniciando la peregrinación, siempre
nos ha revelado sobre sí mimo y sus promesas. Las verdades que
estamos en peregrinación, y siempre estamos llegando una
son el cimiento de la esperanza no son simples teorías, buenas
unión más profunda con Dios. Por eso me inspiran las gentes,
ideas o metas que nos esperan en el futuro. Son luces en el
las lecturas, las películas y los sermones que me recuerdan lo
sendero de la vida y criterios sólidos cuando hacemos decisiones
que Dios me quiere dar ahora, como una probada, un adelanto
importantes.
de lo que me tiene reservado para la eternidad.
Son verdades que repetida e inconfundiblemente Dios se ha
Mientras hacen su peregrinación en el Señor, quisiera que
hecho evidente a lo largo de la historia: Fuimos creados para
este artículo sea un “¡Ultreya!” para ustedes.
Dios. Dios nos ama. Dios nos perdona. Dios nos tiende la mano
Permanezcan en la ruta que les traza la fe. El camino de la
como amigo. Dios tiene un plan para nosotros. Dios es paciente
vida no es idéntico para todos y tiene muchas curvas y vueltas.
con nosotros. Dios no nos abandona nunca. Dios quiere que
Sus peligros son muchas veces impredecibles, y los retos pueden estemos con Él para siempre.
ser sobrecogedores. Pero en el sendero de cada uno, no importa
A los ojos de Dios, revelado en Jesús, siempre es muy pronto
hacia donde lleve o cuantas curvas tenga, la fe clarifica la ruta.
para darse por vencido; nunca es tarde para empezar de nuevo.
Confía en Dios que da luz y guía. No podemos ver más
Espera en Dios. ¡Ultreya!
allá de la desviación que hay adelante, pero Dios si puede. En
Envíe sus intenciones de oración a la Lista de Oración del
oración y reflexión de la palabra de Dios, escuchamos como nos Arzobispo Sartain a la Arquidiócesis de Seattle, 710 Ninth Ave.,
muestra el sendero y calma nuestros nervios destrozados. Aún
Seattle, WA 98104.
en las circunstancias más aterradoras e incomprensibles que la
vida nos presente, mantente en el camino de la fe.
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S A N T O S D E L M E S ( I N E N G L I S H : PA G E 5 )
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Entre los mártires de
Uganda, Carlos Luanga y José Mkasa son los más conocidos.
El cristianismo era nuevo en la nación africana y un rey
joven, Mwanga, gobernaba con animosidad hacia los
extranjeros. Vio a los misioneros como una amenaza y se
tornó feroz con los jóvenes pajes cristianos en su corte. José,
católico, y maestro de los pajes de la corte, fue asesinado por
reprocharle al rey. Carlos y varios otros jóvenes cristianos
fueron condenados a muerte por no renunciar a su fe. Los
mártires fueron canonizados en 1964.
San Efrén
CNS
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Doctor de
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compuso
muchos himnos
c. 306–373
Fiesta:
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CNS
Conocido por los
cristianos sirios como “el
arpa del Espíritu Santo”, este mesopotámico de Nisibia fue
bautizado a los 18 años y pudo haber acompañado a su obispo
al Concilio de Nicea en el año 325. Se desempeñó como jefe
de la escuela de la catedral y dejó Nisibia sólo después de que
se convirtió en persa. En 363 se mudó a una cueva con vista a
Edesa, pero predicaba con frecuencia en la ciudad y compuso
muchos poemas, himnos y comentarios bíblicos y organizó
un coro de mujeres para cantar himnos durante las liturgias.
Entorno al 370 visitó a San Basilio en Cesarea. El invierno
previo a su muerte, ganó elogios por administrar suministros
de socorro durante una hambruna severa en Edesa. Efrén es el
único padre sirio declarado doctor de la Iglesia.
Catholic News Service
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DEL OBISPO
( I N E N G L I S H : W W W. N W C AT H O L I C . O R G )
EL PODER DE UN SOPLO
Para convencer al mundo del poder amoroso de Jesús, basta con
que le permitamos insuflar en nuestro interior su presencia
Y
o he tenido la bendición y
privilegio de ser sacerdote por
casi ya 30 años. Si a esto le agrego
los muchos años de formación en el
seminario, podría decir que tres cuartas
partes de mi vida me la he pasado
predicando.
zar todo esto y ese mismo soplo es con el que
nuestro Señor resucitado nos arroja hoy al
mundo. “Esta escritura se cumple hoy”.
(Lucas 4, 21)
Para convencer al mundo del poder amoroso
de Jesús, basta con que le permitamos insuflar en nuestro interior su presencia. Solo así
podremos hacer recobrar la vista a quien está
ciego de envidia y no puede contemplar en su
OBISPO EUSEBIO
persona la belleza de lo que Dios ha hecho. Así
ELIZONDO, M.SP.S.
Muchas horas de práctica en escritura, dictambién seremos instrumentos de libertad para
ción, énfasis, ritmo, entonación, lenguaje no verquien está cautivo en su propio egoísmo; ese
bal, etc., y sin embargo en tantas ocasiones descubro con
soplo calentará los corazones helados sin ningún contacto
tristeza que no logré, al final de mi prédica, conectarme
humano, un soplo tan poderoso que aligerará las cargas
con mi audiencia.
de los oprimidos, ofreciendo solaz y esperanza.
¿Cómo hicieron pues hace dos mil años esos humildes
Empujados por ese soplo, los discípulos han caminado
pescadores galileos para entregar su mensaje con tanta efidesde entonces por todos los rincones del mundo abriendo
cacia? A campo abierto, sin la ayuda de altavoces, sin más
nuevas sendas de fraternidad, de justicia, de perdón y de
preparación que el haber escuchado a un carpintero por
alegría. Nuevos discípulos están siendo formados en la
tres años y sin embargo, sus pocas palabras transformaron iglesia cada día a través de la catequesis y los sacramentos
cientos de mentes y corazones.
que son nuestra energía como creyentes.
¡Todo por el poder de un soplo! Jesús resucitado se
Es ėpoca de graduaciones y confirmaciones
presenta en medio de asustadizos seguidores, sopla sobre
Esta época del año litúrgico se caracteriza por la
ellos y los transforma en apóstoles diciendo: “Reciban al
alegría de ver a cientos de jóvenes en nuestras parroquias
Espíritu Santo” — “Como el Padre me envió a mí, así yo
recibiendo el sacramento de la confirmación. Muchos
lo envío a ustedes”. (Juan 20, 21-22)
de estos jóvenes también celebrarán por estos días su
Bastó un soplo para hacer la diferencia! Ese soplo era el
graduación de la escuela preparatoria con todas las
mismo que impactó la nariz del primer hombre terrenal y
expectativas de su futuro que al llegar a esta meta les
le infundió vida. (cfr. Génesis 2, 7) No bastaba con ser “un
viviente”; Jesús con su soplo nos dá la plenitud de la vida y hace irremediablemente plantearse personalmente.
Como los discípulos de antaño, los nuevos discípulos
nos lanza a repartirla a toda la creación.
también tienen miedo de lo que vendrá en sus vidas,
pero Jesús no los dejará jamás solos. El viene a soplar en
Un soplo que viene de Dios
nuestras vidas inteligencia y sabiduría para tomar las deCon ese soplo Jesús nos capacita a derrotar al maligno,
cisiones adecuadas de acuerdo a su voluntad amorosa. La
es decir, al pecado en todas sus formas, que siempre trae
muerte consigo. Su soplo es la frescura del perdón de Dios, presencia de su Espíritu se transforma en un poderoso tornado que nos transporta a nuevos campos donde podemos
es la misericordia divina que pone una barrera infranqueser testigos — misioneros de servicio, de alegría, de fraterable para el demonio. Es ese viento que barre la cobardía
nidad y de comunión. Probablemente para muchos será la
y el desaliento de los seguidores y los hace testigos del
universidad ese campo donde ese divino soplo los lleve.
perdón de Dios por puro don, por puro amor.
El soplo divino hizo que María nos regalara a nuestro
Los pulmones de Jesús estaban llenos del aliento divino.
redentor, y la impulsara a acompañar a los discípulos
El mismo aliento que lo arrojó fuera de la tumba venciendo
en la gran misión de ser convincentes con la palabra y la
para siempre a la muerte. Ese aliento del amor de Dios lo
hacía clamar lleno de gozo: “El Espíritu del Señor está sobre vida. Sin duda ella nos ayudará a ser dócilmente llevados
a proclamar por doquier las maravillas que hace un solo
mí, porque me ha consagrado para llevar la buena noticia a
los pobres; me ha enviado a anunciar libertad a los presos, y soplo divino.
¡Dejémonos alegremente llevar!
dar vista a los ciegos; a poner en libertad a los oprimidos; a
anunciar el año favorable del Señor”. (Lucas 4, 18-19)
Eusebio Elizondo, M.Sp.S., es obispo auxiliar de Seattle y
El soplo de Dios Padre envió a Jesús al mundo a realivicario para el ministerio hispano.
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S E M I L L A S D E L A PA L A B R A
( I N E N G L I S H : W W W. N W C AT H O L I C . O R G )
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Estudiante recién graduado:
¡Tu momento ha llegado!
“T
odo tiene un tiempo y cada cosa su
Gracias a Dios que me permitió estudiar y llegar
hasta el final. Gracias a todos mis maestros que me
momento bajo el cielo: su tiempo
llevaron de la mano hasta este gran día. Gracias a
el nacer y su tiempo el morir; su tiempo
mis papás por su esfuerzo titánico para ayudarme a
el plantar y su tiempo el arrancar lo
realizar mis estudios.
Mi emoción se acrecentaba al darme cuenta de
plantado”. (Eclesiastés 3, 1-2) Yo agregaría a estas
una tremenda realidad: Hasta ese momento, mi vida
bellas palabras del Libro del Eclesiastés:
toda, por completo, se había dedicado al estudio.
“su tiempo el estudiar y su tiempo el
Era ahora el momento de trabajar y así, iniciar el
trabajar; su tiempo el soñar y su tiempo el MAURICIO I. PÉREZ segundo episodio de la historia de mi vida.
De niño, soñaba con un día ser ingeniero. Todo
hacer realidad los sueños de la infancia; su
tiene un tiempo y cada cosa su momento bajo el cielo. Había
tiempo el ser alimentado por nuestros padres y su
llegado el momento de hacerlo realidad. Porque bien sabía que
un diploma no bastaba. Era el momento de aprovechar cada
tiempo el cuidar de ellos”.
Recuerdo con emoción el día en que me gradué de la universidad. Nunca imaginé que fuera a ser tan emocionante.
En el gimnasio de baloncesto los miles de estudiantes que
nos graduábamos éramos llamados uno por uno para recibir
del rector el preciado diploma con nuestro título impreso en
letras doradas. Al escuchar mi nombre, todo fue como en
cámara lenta. Llegué ante el rector y me dijo al entregarme
el diploma: “Tus papás deben sentirse muy orgullosos de
ti y tú siempre debes estarles agradecidos por lo que te han
dado”. Tomé mi diploma y como levitando entre las nubes
volví a mi silla en medio de mis compañeros.
Al terminar la ceremonia, corrí fuera del gimnasio buscando
a mis papás. Esquivé varios muchachos — hombres y mujeres —
que abrazaban a sus papás y con emoción lloraban. Los nudos
en la garganta que se habían atado por la emoción durante la
ceremonia, ahora se reventaban dejando salir con lágrimas lo que
las palabras no lograban articular: ¡Gracias! ¡Gracias! ¡Gracias!
uno de los dones que Dios me dio para ejercer mi profesión con
empeño y dignidad y enarbolando siempre los valores cristianos.
Hasta ese día, fui cuidado, educado y alimentado por mis
padres, de quienes nada me faltó. Había llegado el momento de
comenzar a proveer yo para ellos. Al menos por gratitud, pero
sobre todo, porque el profesionista que nunca desampara a sus
padres cumple con el mandato de Dios “Honrarás a tu padre y
a tu madre”.
Querido amigo, amiga que te estás graduando: Tu momento
ha llegado. Haz realidad tus sueños, nunca te olvides de tus
padres y haz de tu trabajo cada día una obra de alabanza a tu
Padre Dios que te ha bendecido con los estudios que en estos
días han culminado.
¡Apasiónate por nuestra fe!
Mauricio I. Pérez, miembro de la Parroquia de Sta. Mónica
en Mercer Island, es periodista católico. Su sitio web es
www.semillasparalavida.org.
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NEWS
MUDSLIDE RELIEF
Women religious
mark special
anniversaries
Donations
for Oso top
$375,000
At least 34 religious
sisters with ties to
Western Washington
are celebrating special
anniversaries this year
— including 11 who are
marking 50 years in religious life. The jubilarians
represent six religious
communities: the Sisters of Providence, the
Sisters of St. Francis of
Philadelphia, the Sisters
of St. Joseph of Peace,
the Sisters of the Holy
Names of Jesus and
Mary, and the Adrian
and Tacoma Dominican
Sisters. For more on the
jubilarians, visit www.
NWCatholic.org.
Catholic Community Services of Western
Washington has received
more than $375,000 in
donations to help those
affected by the March 22
Oso mudslide. The donations have been used to
defray funeral expenses,
assist those who lost their
homes and possessions,
and help the Oso community in a variety of other
ways. CCS is forwarding
the money to Father Tim
Sauer, pastor at Immaculate Conception Parish
in Arlington and St. John
Vianney Mission in Darrington, who is distributing the funds.
Donations may be made
at www.ccsww.org, or by
mailing checks to Catholic Community Services,
Attn: Oso Mudslide, 100
23rd Ave. S., Seattle, WA
98144-2312. Make checks
payable to “Catholic Community Services” and note
“Oso Mudslide” in the
memo area.
Courtesy PNAC
JUBILARIANS
ACOLYTES
Two Seattle seminarians
commissioned to serve at altar
CNS/Stefano Rellandini, Reuters
Two seminarians for the Archdiocese of Seattle
were among the 53 men who received the ministry of acolyte during a Mass April 6 at the Pontifical North American College in Rome. Michael Dion
(pictured) and Kyle Mangloña have two more years
of studies and spiritual formation before being
ordained to the priesthood. As acolytes, they are
commissioned to serve at the altar at Mass, assist in
the purification of Communion vessels, and take holy
Communion to the sick. (Read Michael Dion’s reflection on his pilgrimage to the Holy Land on page 10.)
QUOTABLE
“Think about a
church without
sisters! It is unthinkable: They are this
gift, this leaven that
carries forward
the people of God.
These women who
consecrate their life
to God, who carry
forward Jesus’ message, are great.”
POPE FRANCIS, in his
Angelus address Feb. 2
PASSING
Andy Holzberger dies at 104
Andy Holzberger, whose journey of faith was featured in April’s issue of Northwest Catholic (www.
NWCatholic.org/magazine/659-courage-and-safepassage), died April 10.
Holzberger was born Dec. 1, 1909, in the village
of Deutsch-Mokra, now part of western Ukraine. He
and his wife, Regina, emigrated from Germany after
World War II, eventually making their way to Washington state. Along with many relatives, they settled
near Raymond, where they continued their devotion
to the church and love for their faith.
Holzberger’s wife died in 1971; he is survived by
many nieces and nephews. His funeral Mass was celebrated April 21 at St. Lawrence Church in Raymond.
Visit www.NWCatholic.org for more news and events.
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BY THE NUMBERS
1,446
TOTAL GRADUATES
THIS SPRING — 756
WOMEN AND 690 MEN
— FROM WESTERN
WASHINGTON’S
11 CATHOLIC HIGH
SCHOOLS: Archbishop
Murphy, Bellarmine
Prep, Bishop Blanchet,
Eastside Catholic,
Forest Ridge School of
the Sacred Heart, Holy
Names Academy, John
F. Kennedy Catholic,
O’Dea, Pope John Paul II,
Seattle Prep and Seton
Catholic. For more on the
graduating seniors, visit
www.NWCatholic.org.
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EVENTS
PENTECOST
Charismatic Catholics
invite all to celebrate
Stephen Brashear
Courtesy John Michael Talbot
The Western Washington Catholic Charismatic Renewal will host
a Pentecost celebration Sunday,
June 8, from 3–6 p.m. at Seattle’s
St. Matthew Church, 1240 N.E.
127th St. The event will include
praise and worship, testimonies,
prayer and fellowship. All are
welcome. “We believe that every
celebration, but most especially
at Pentecost, is an opportunity for
the Lord to increase our capacity
to use the gifts that we have been
given,” said WWCCR executive
director Sue Gallwas. (Read more
about the Catholic charismatic
renewal starting on page 16.)
CONCERTS
John Michael Talbot to perform
Catholic music legend John Michael Talbot will give two concerts at
Western Washington parishes this month. The first will be June 24 at 7
p.m. at Tacoma’s St. Charles Borromeo Church (7112 S. 12th St.). Tickets are
$20, or $35 for stage seating. For more information, call 253-564-5185 or
visit parish.stcharlesb.org/jmt.
Talbot will perform June 25 at 7 p.m. at Vancouver’s St. Joseph Church
(400 S. Andresen Road). Tickets are $20, or $30 for reserved seating, and
will be $5 more at the door. For more information, call 360-696-4407 or
email [email protected].
VIVA!
QUO VADIS
Consider a call to
religious life
Free camp helps teens
explore priesthood
The fourth annual Viva! retreat
for single women age 20–40 exploring a call to religious life will
take place July 19–20 at The Priory
Spirituality Center, 500 College
St. N.E., Lacey. The program will
include vocation stories, sharing
time, quiet time, Mass, prayer and
nature walks.
Registration is $10, and the
deadline is July 11. Space is limited
to 20 women. For more information, contact Benedictine Sister
Lucy Wynkoop at 360-438-1771 or
[email protected].
Young men age 13–18 are invited
to learn more about the priesthood,
deepen their faith and discern
God’s call in their lives at the Archdiocese of Seattle’s 12th annual
Quo Vadis Days June 22–25 at
Camp Don Bosco near Carnation.
The camp, which is sponsored by
the Serra Club, Knights of Columbus and private donors, is free.
For more information, and to
register, visit www.qvdays.org.
For questions, contact Father
Joseph Altenhofen at 360734-2850.
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RETREAT
Get inside the mind
and heart of Pope
Francis
Father Thomas Rosica, CEO
of Salt and Light Catholic Media
Foundation,
Canada’s first
national Catholic television
network, will
lead a retreat
on “The Mind
and Heart of
Pope Francis”
June 13–15
at the ArchFather Thomas
bishop Brunett Rosica
Retreat Center
at the Palisades (4700 S.W. Dash
Point Road, Federal Way).
The price is $199 per person
(single room) or $165 per person
(double room), and includes six
meals and two nights in a room
with private bath. Scholarships are
available. For more information,
call 206-748-7991.
Where will my granchildren find my grave?
Do you have the cremated remains of a loved one
at home? Have you given thought to scattering the cremated
remains in the mountains, on the golf course, in Puget Sound?
Having chosen cremation, many people simply don’t know
what to do after the urn is returned to the family. If you are
considering alternatives to cemetery burial, consider the value of
a permanent place of visitation and prayer for future generations
of your family – the Catholic Cemetery.
Your permanent place of burial in a Catholic cemetery
provides you with the opportunity to be present in the lives
of future generations of your family yet unborn and to share
the values of your faith with them. Your children, your grandchildren, your great-grandchildren will be so glad that you made
this choice.
Pre-Planning will allow you to address these questions well
before there is a need. This is truly a great gift of love that you
will leave to your family.
Your Archdiocesan Catholic cemeteries offer a wide variety of choices for
the placement of cremated remains with prices starting at $275.00.
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C ATHOLIC C EMETERIES . . . THERE R EALLY
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