Welcome back to Ordinary Time! Today (June 23) is the Solemnity of the Nativity (Birthday) of St. John the Baptist, one of only three birthdays we mark on the liturgical calendar. What are the other two birthdays we celebrate? Put your answer in the survey below. On this day Christians have classically had bonfires to mark midsummer and echo the words of St. John the Baptist, "I must decease so that he may increase" (John 3:30), now that the summer solstice has passed we move toward Christmas and the light of Jesus Christ. Tomorrow, on the third Friday after Pentecost Sunday, we also mark the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This important devotion played a major role in the Catholic faith of French North America and therefore of our own Archdiocese of Seattle. I invite you tomorrow to spend minutes as a family to pray this Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus:

We will resume in-person Children's Faith Formation on September 11, 2022 with accompanying opportunities for parents' formation! The CFF Calendar for 2022-2023 is available. Let us know in the survey below how what you're most inspired about for the next year.

I invite all families to please complete this brief survey of our Children's Faith Formation. And, if you feel called to serve as a catechist or know someone whom the Lord has gifted with a heart open to serve as a catechist please include their name in the survey. Thank you all for the opportunitiy to have been in your midst this year as one who serves.

Do feel free to reach out to me during the summer if there is any way in which I can serve you and I look forward to being with you on Sundays, at our parish picnic and patronal solemnity of St. James on Sunday, July 24, at Youth Choir Camp from August 8-12.

Veni, Sancte Spiritus,

Andrew Casad, MTS, MA

Children’s Faith Formation

St. James Cathedral, Seattle

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