St John the Evangelist Parish
April 17, 2019
The Triduum
 
Holy Thursday of the Lord's Supper
Mass -April 18th at 7pm
Adoration until 10pm in the Reservation Chapel
 
Good Friday of the Passion of the Lord
April 19th
Stations of the Cross at 2pm 
  Liturgy at 7pm
 
Holy Saturday
The Easter Vigil in the Holy Night
Mass - April 20th at 8:30pm
 
Easter Sunday
The Resurrection of the Lord  
Mass - April 21st at 8:30am & 10:30am
Bring your bells to Holy Thursday Mass!
The whole congregation is invited to ring bells during the Gloria at Holy Thursday Mass.  Bring your bells and help  "make a joyful noise" !


Turn in your Rice Bowls!
All donations collected on Holy Thursday are earmarked for the poor through our Rice Bowl program.  If you been collecting money in your Rice Bowl you can turn it in on Holy Thursday, any weekend Mass, or in the Parish Office.  Thank you! Your Rice Bowl donations support the work of CRS in roughly 45 different countries each year supporting hunger and poverty alleviation efforts.

Young Adults, here is something very special for you!
 
  • Join us for the 8th annual Holy Thursday Pilgrimage for Young Adults! Watch, Walk and Pray with Our Lord as the Church celebrates the Triduum, the holiest days of the year. The pilgrimage begins at 8:00pm on the steps of St. James Cathedral, and includes stops at St. Mary's, Immaculate Conception, and the Chapel of St. Ignatius on Seattle University's campus before concluding inside St. James Cathedral. Please contact Megan Pepin at [email protected] with any questions.
Father Paul Farin of Cross Catholic Outreach will be visiting our parish next weekend to speak at all the Masses on behalf of the poor in developing countries. Cross Catholic Outreach was founded to create a meaningful link between parishes in America and the priests and nuns working in the Church overseas in the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Central and South America.
Seattle Camino de Santiago
A small, but mighty group braved the elements to walk the third annual Seattle Camino de Santiago on Saturday.  We walked, bused, prayed, and got to know each other along the journey.
Click here to see pictures from the event.
HOST FAMILIES NEEDED
The International Program is looking for new host families for next school year! To learn more about becoming a BBHS host family and hosting an International BBHS student for the 2019-2020 school year,
please click here.
St John Book Club
The St. John Book club will be reading Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales. This book focuses on the need for laypeople to be saints in their own way. The book consolidates letters St. Francis had written to one of his congregants and provides all sorts of advice on meditation, anxiety, sadness, friendship, humility. . . and a host of other topics to live the devout life. It is remarkably accessible given that it was written 400 years ago.   
The book is still in publication. It is also available in pdf, you can listen to it here, and EWTN also has a program on his life.
 
We hope to see you on Tuesday, May 7 at 7:00 PM in the Admin Building.
Happy Easter!
 
Do you think Moses was a real person in history?  Or do you think Moses is a legend created by the Jews?  Wikipedia says, "The modern scholarly consensus is that the figure of Moses is a mythical figure..."   What about the Exodus?  Passover?  Wandering in the desert for 40 years?  The Promised Land?  Again, Wikipedia says, "There is an almost universal consensus among scholars that the Exodus story is best understood as myth;"
 
Do a mental experiment:  I think most Catholics believe Adam to be a mythical figure, and Jesus to be real.  So, if you work your way back in time, through the Old Testament, you're reading history at the time of Jesus and myth at the time of Adam.  There must be a transition somewhere in the Old Testament.  When do you believe the transition happens?  Think about the big names in the OT:  Adam, Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, David.  Which do you think are mythical and which historical?  David is the only one that Wikipedia will concede actually existed.  "Historians of the Ancient Near East agree that David probably existed around 1000 BCE."
 
Here's what I think:  I'm not going to argue with anybody about Adam, partly from a desire to avoid long conversations about evolution.  I'm going to believe that Abraham, patriarch of three great religions, was historical.  And, I'm going to be undecided about Noah.  As for Wikipedia, I love it to death.  I give them a little money each year for all the benefit I get.  But my rule of thumb on Wikipedia is that they're great for facts, not so great for interpretation.  On matters of faith, I'm going to trust the Bible over Wikipedia, and ancient wisdom over modern, secular consensus.  What do you think?
 
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Saint of the Month

Saint Catherine of Sienna
Feast: April 29th