PARISH FAMILY MASS TIMES
St. Aloysius - Buckley
Saturday - 4:00pm
Sunday - 11:00am
Tue, Sat - 8:30am
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Sacred Heart - Enumclaw
Saturday - 5:30pm
Sunday - 9:00am & 12:00pm Spanish
Mon, Thu, Fri - 9:00am
Wed - 6:00pm
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St. Barbara - Black Diamond
Saturday - 5:00pm
Sunday - 8:00am & 10:00am
Wed, Fri - 9:00am, Thu 6:00pm
The Archdiocese of Seattle is celebrating its 175th anniversary! We are all invited to join Catholics across Western Washington to serve others together as the living Body of Christ through the Season of Service, which runs from March to May 2025.
• During this time, let’s come together to volunteer our time serving others. We’re aiming for 175,000 hours of service to recognize our legacy of faith – and demonstrate our commitment to serving others.
• You can participate by serving others and logging your hours. You can join service opportunities at your parish, school or ministry. Or see more than 50 volunteer opportunities that you, a group of friends or family can sign up for on the Archdiocesan website: archseattle.org/seasonofservice
• Report your service hours on the archseattle.org/seasonofservice website. Just
click the reporting buttons and simply enter your hours. Be sure to include all your volunteer hours during the March-May timeframe.
• Together let’s serve and volunteer 175,000 hours by May 31!
• The Season of Service will culminate in a special 175th Anniversary Mass and
Celebration, presided by Archbishop Paul D. Etienne at 11 am at St. James
Cathedral in Seattle. Everyone is invited. For more details, go to archseattle.org/events.
Month of The Holy Spirit
The month of April is dedicated to the Holy Spirit. To believe in the Holy Spirit is to profess that the Holy Spirit is one of the persons of the Holy Trinity, consubstantial with the Father and the Son: "with the Father and the Son he is worshipped and glorified." (Catechism of the Catholic Church)
The Holy Spirit is the Person of Love in the life of God. He is also like a breath, an aspiration of infinite Love, from which we draw the breath of life.
On the day of Pentecost the Divine Spirit communicated such an abundance of life to the whole Church that to symbolize it "there came a sound from heaven, as of a violent wind coming, and it filled the whole house where they (the Apostles) were sitting."
But it is also for us that the Holy Spirit has come, for the group in the Cenacle represented the whole Church. The Holy Spirit came to remain with the Church forever. This is the promise of Jesus Himself. He dwells in the Church permanently and unfailingly, performing in it without ceasing His action of life-giving and sanctification. He establishes the Church infallibly in the truth. It is He Who makes the Church blossom forth with a marvelous supernatural fruitfulness, for He brings to life and full fruition in Virgins, Martyrs, and Confessors those heroic virtues which are one of the marks of true sanctity.
(The Mysteries of the Rosary, Dom Columba Marmion, O.S.B.)
Every year, the Archdiocese of Seattle invites Catholics to support important collections. This calendar outlines opportunities so you can plan your giving and support the causes most important to you.
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The Divine Mercy Message and Devotion
The message of The Divine Mercy is simple. It is that God loves us – all of us. And, He wants us to recognize that His mercy is greater than our sins, so that we will call upon Him with trust, receive His mercy, and let it flow through us to others. Thus, all will come to share His joy.
The Divine Mercy message is one we can call to mind simply by remembering ABC:
A - Ask for His Mercy. God wants us to approach Him in prayer constantly, repenting of our sins and asking Him to pour His mercy out upon us and upon the whole world.
B - Be merciful. God wants us to receive His mercy and let it flow through us to others. He wants us to extend love and forgiveness to others just as He does to us.
C - Completely trust in Jesus. God wants us to know that all the graces of His mercy can only be received by our trust. The more we open the door of our hearts and lives to Him with trust, the more we can receive. Learn more here...
Learn more about Divine Mercy here...
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