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121 N 80th St
Seattle, WA 98103
(206) 782-2810
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St John the Evangelist Parish
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St. John Cathedral Builders Present
Bishop Robert Barron's Pivotal Players
Thursdays, 7:00 - 8:30 in Egan Hall
If you enjoyed Bishop Barron's CATHOLICISM series, you're in for another treat. The Pivotal Players series illuminates a handful of saints, artists, mystics, and scholars who not only shaped the life of the Church, but changed the course of civilization.
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23 St. Francis of Assisi
Discussion: Bill Marty
3/23 G. K. Chesterton
Special Guest Speaker Dale Ahlquist
4/27 Michelangelo
5/18 John Henry Newman
Special Guest Speaker Dr. James Felak
6/22 St. Thomas Aquinas
7/20 St. Catherine of Siena
Discussion: Kristin Kent
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Children ages 5 to 11 are invited to attend Children's Liturgy of the Word (CLOW) during 10:30 Mass. Father will call them to the altar for a blessing, then they will follow two teachers to a classroom on the ground floor of the school building and return in about 20 minutes. This gives children an opportunity to learn about the Gospel and parts of the liturgy on an age appropriate level.
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Annual Golden Fellowship
Fat Tuesday Celebration
Tuesday, February 28th at Noon in Quigley 13
Mary is makin' jambalaya!
Bring your favorite Mardi Gras dish and join in the fun!
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Helping with coffee and donuts is a great way to get involved in our community and meet people. We are gathering a group of volunteers who could step in and help when needed. If you can spend one Sunday morning a month helping with this ministry, please contact Mary Wiseman at
mwiseman@stjohnsea.org or 206-782-2810.
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We are getting so close! We can reach our goal!
If you haven't sent in your pledge for 2017, click on the link below and take care of it today!
Stewardship 2017!
Thank you to all who have made gifts and pledges to our annual stewardship appeal. To date, we have received
529 pledges totaling
$738,140 toward our goal of
$802,000. We are endlessly grateful for your commitment to St John Parish! If you haven't yet affirmed your active membership in our parish, please do so, and prayerfully consider what gift you are able to give to support our work.
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We wish to thank you for sharing your thoughts regarding St. John the Evangelist Church and School and the proposed plans to address our needs. We are extremely grateful for your participation in this important planning study.
Your responses will enable us to accurately plan for our future and make meaningful decisions as we look to potentially embark on a capital campaign. The Steier Group has compiled their results and presented their findings and recommendations to us. We are carefully considering all of their findings and you will hear more about these important projects in the coming weeks.
Again, thank you for participating in this important effort. Your opinions are valued and greatly appreciated.
Baraka ya Yesu,
Rev. Crispin A. Okoth
Pastor
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Our wonderful Director of Liturgical Music - Becky Kelly is taking an extended leave of absence from her duties, to be able to enjoy more time with her family - you might remember that her youngest son, Isaiah is still under a year old. Mrs. Kelly will still be teaching at the school and helping prepare the children for the Sunday Children's masses. Mrs. Kelly has also offered to fill in when needed as a cantor, accompanist or in whatever the new person may need. THANK YOU Mrs. Kelly for being so inclusive and involving so many people in the music ministry. We will miss seeing you so often!!
With the departure of Mrs. Becky Kelly, Father Crispin has appointed Dr. Twila McDonell (she currently leads the 8:30am Choir), as St John's interim Director of Liturgical Music. Please join us to congratulate and welcome Dr. McDonell.
The results of the music survey will be ready soon, watch for it to be published by the end of February.
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Next class - Sunday, February 26th - Room 32
Catechism classes for students in grades 6-12 have begun on Sundays from 9:30-10:30. They will consist of readings for the day and a short section of the Apostles Creed. This will enable students to become more familiar with the Mass.
March, April and May, we are hoping for some short term volunteers to fill the Sundays that I will be busy with the confirmation program retreat and other activities.
Please contact me at (206) 782-2810 if you have any questions or would like to sign up your child, or volunteer. Please have your child come to class even if they have not signed up! All high school students are welcome.
Sheila Connolly
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"3-on-3 March Madness"
11am - 1pm, Saturday, March 11 - Egan Gym
Do you and two teammates have what it takes to reach the top? Are you the next Stephen Curry or Kelsey Plum?
The annual St John Youth Group March Madness Basketball Tournament is back and this time with more music, more prizes, more snacks and more bragging rights. Girls and Boys can sign up now to reserve a team spot in the competition. Bracket One will feature 7th-8th graders (mixed-grade teams are OK). Bracket Two will feature 5th-6th graders (mixed-grade teams are OK). Email or text Youth Group Leader Myke Folger with your team and team name ASAP - and start practising! It's gonna be POSITIVE-ly LIT!!!
The next Youth Group meeting will be March 15th, 6:30-8pm in the Mezzanine. We will have snacks, music and a movie and talk about fun projects in the future.
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Jr
. High Rally
March 11th Held at Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart
Grades 6-9
Students who would like to attend need to contact Myke Folger at
206-612-0036 (text OK)
or Sheila Connolly at 206-782-2810 to leave a message.
Deadline for registration is February 27th.
Cost per student is $55 per student
This is a wonderful opportunity for young people to experience aspects of their faith along with a great community!
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High School Service Opportunities:
Come with your friends!!
Ballard Community Center
Sheila Connolly, Faith Formation director, is happy to take groups of students to the following activities. Students will earn 4 hours of service for each time. Call 206-782-2810 to reserve space.
The Annual Loyal Heights Pancake Breakfast fundraiser is March 3rd from 8am-12:00pm. They need volunteers 7:00am until 2:00pm to help set up, cook, serve breakfast and clean up at the end of the breakfast. They are looking to recruit about 25 volunteers.
Parents' Night Out: 3/10, 4/14, 5/12
Meet on Church Steps 5:15 and return to Church Steps at 9:30 PM
Daddy Daughter Dinner: 3/11
Set up-5 students
4 pm-11pm (7 hours of direct service) 10 students.
You need to provide your own transportation but Sheila Connolly will be the evening chaperone.
Spring Easter Egg Hunt: 4/15
9 am to 12pm. 3 hours of direct service
10 students needed.
For all events, call Sheila Connolly, 206-782-2810
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The 2017 St. John School auction
80s
Do you remember these lyrics? If you do, you are a kid/teenager from the 80s. Apologies to those who will have these songs in their heads for the next 24 hours...
"Wake me up before you GO-GO..."
"Because your friends don't dance and if they don't dance well they're no friends of mine..."
PROCUREMENT
If you have wonderful auction items, maybe a vacation house weekend, or bottle of wine you would like to donate, we will happy take them off your hands! The auction items can be dropped off at the parish or school office until March 3rd. Here is the link to the procurement form.
Procurement Wish List:
- Air miles....
- UW locker room tour
- Orangetheory month membership
- Palm Springs or Cannon Beach getaway trips...
- Ray's Boathouse, Skillet, Luisa's & Zeek's gift cards
- Seattle Staycation - downtown hotel, restaurant & show tickets
- Bottles of wine
- CASH donations are always welcome!
SPONSORS
TICKETS
For the planners in the crowd, auction tickets will go on sale March 9th; there will round tables of ten people each. More information to come...
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Reading the news these days is not a recipe for increasing your peace and happiness. So where do you go to read good Catholic material? Something that does increase peace and happiness? Something that matters in the long term? One of the places I go is to a web site called the Catholic Education Resource Center, or CERC. Find them here:
http://www.catholiceducation.org/ On one of my recent visits there, I found an article called
Recognizing his presence by Father George Rutler. Here's a short sample:
Europe and its contiguous lands were in a chaotic condition in 1240. Mongols were destroying Kiev, the Novgorod army virtually wiped out the Swedes along the Neva River, and the Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick II, was pillaging the Papal States using Islamic Saracens as his mercenaries. Pope Gregory IX's attempt to rally a Crusade against the invaders failed, and his good friend Saint Clare was virtually bedridden as the Saracens besieged her convent at San Damiano. Her beloved Francis of Assisi had died fourteen years before. In this emergency, she left her invalid couch, went to the window and exposed the Blessed Sacrament in a silver and ivory ciborium, and the alien troops fled.
In northern Mexico until just a few years ago, drug- and gang-related violence had made Ciudad Juarez one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Following the example of Saint Clare, missionaries turned to the Eucharistic Lord for help. A perpetual adoration chapel was opened in 2013 when the murder rate was forty people a day, with soldiers and policemen joining the gangs. Increasing numbers of devotees urged the soldiers to join them in Holy Hours. Few now dismiss as only coincidence the fact that within five years the annual murder rate dropped from 3,766 to 256.
St. John offers Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament on Thursday mornings after mass. You can find Adoration times at neighboring churches listed here: https://masstimes.org If you have a prayer nugget you'd like to share with the parish, email Bill Marty, bill@takenroad.com. Thanks!
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Saint of the Month
Saint John XXIII
(1881-1963, Italy)
Feast Day: October 11
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