Golden Fellowship Luncheon is June 22! 

We are bringing back our popular Golden Fellowship gatherings that were put on hold in the Spring of 2020 due to the pandemic. This is a great way for the senior members of our community to come together to share a meal and fellowship.  

Join us at noon on Thursday, June 22 in the Parish Admin Building to have lunch and talk about plans for future gatherings. ALL are welcome—and bring a friend!  Please email or call Teresa Gillett at tgillett@stjohnsea.org or 206-782-2810 ex 355 with any questions.

Liturgical Life of the Parish

Sacristan

Before the Mass begins, someone has to prepare for it.

The sacristan “diligently arranges the liturgical books, the vestments, and other things that are necessary for the celebration of Mass” (General Instruction of the Roman Missal, 105a). This short description summarizes the invaluable work performed behind the scenes by a person who helps us pray at the Eucharist. Read more.

June Focus on St. John

My Dear Children, Love on Another

It seems that St. John remained for a long time in Jerusalem, but that his later years were spent at Ephesus, whence he founded many churches in Asia Minor. St. John wrote his Gospel after the other Evangelists, about sixty-three years after the Ascension of Christ; also three Epistles, and the wonderful and mysterious Book of the Apocalypse or Revelation. He was brought to Rome and, according to tradition, was cast into a caldron of boiling oil by order of Emperor Domitian. Like the Three Children in the fiery furnace of Babylon, he was miraculously preserved unhurt.

He was later exiled to the Island of Patmos, where he wrote the Apocalypse, but afterwards returned to Ephesus.

In his extreme old age he continued to visit the churches of Asia. St. Jerome relates that when age and weakness grew upon him so that he was no longer able to preach to the people, he would be carried to the assembly of the faithful by his disciples, with great difficulty; and every time said to his flock only these words: "My dear children, love one another."

St. John died in peace at Ephesus in the third year of Trajan (as seems to be gathered from Eusebius' history of the Saint); that is, the hundredth of the Christian era, or the sixty-sixth from the crucifixion of Christ, St. John then being about ninety-four years old, according to St. Epiphanus. 

--Excerpted from Heavenly Friends, St. Paul Editions

This will end our focus on the words of Jesus through the apostle St. John

Partners in the Gospel

Consultative process for parish family configurations has officially begun.   Click here to learn more.