For all who are ill, and those who care for them, especially: Kateri Mauss, daughter of McKenzie and Craig Mauss; and Steve Schneider. May God’s Holy Light bring them healing, strength, and hope.

We invite you to complete our Prayer Request Form or call/email the parish office at 206-523-6776 to add names to the prayer list. Names for the petition of the sick will remain for four weeks unless otherwise specified.

Did you have a chance to read Archbishop Etienne’s letter and the importance and impact of your gift to the Annual Catholic Appeal? The impact of the Annual Catholic Appeal is to minister to those in need, build the Catholic faith within us and directly support our parish mission services. Please consider how you are a part of the archbishop’s message. Take time to read the bulletin insert from this weekend and prayerfully consider how you and your family will participate. Use the envelope in the pew, scan the QR code or visit our website to give today.

Online at archseattle.org/GiveACA or Scan the QR Code

Blair Ashcraft; Evelyn Bachhuber; Camila Rivera Bendana; Olivia Bennett; Avary Bennett; Lucia Chavez; James Conley; Elena Conley; Xavier Crews; Andy Dores; Cecilia Engel; Katie Felton; Nicolas Gahan; Marianna Gunter; Ivy Harasimowicz; Santiago Jones; Maxwell Liston; Sophia Liston; Evan McDonald; Kylie Moskovitz; Mia Rashid; Paula Simon; Anthony Simon; Victoria Swan; Kyle Vu; Kaitlyn Vu; Ali Westling; and Gianna ("Gigi") Young

As people continue to return to Mass post-COVID, we have the opportunity to remind our parish about the beauty of our traditions and why we do them. This past weekend, we began a 5 week series called "Exploring the Liturgy" during Mass which includes a brief spoken reflections paired with a bulletin inserts that goes deeper into the different parts of the Mass. On Sunday, Thomas Varas, read a reflection on "The Welcome". The bulletin insert is included here. Please join us this coming weekend for a reflection on "The Liturgy of the Word". Please find the paired insert here.

We learned so much from hearing from all of you! So many ideas about ways we can "Strengthen Our Community"...Intergenerational events, youth activities, adding greeters back, expanding our work with the homebound and reinventing how we welcome new individuals and families so they can experience what so many of have felt. These are just a few of the ideas that were shared. But we need more!

Join us tonight or over Zoom this weekend to not only share you ideas but also grow together. I think everyone that attended last week felt inspired, engaged and most importantly closer to one another after attending. We hope you can too!

If you want to learn more about our Synod process including how it began and where we are going, check out the link here.

I am sending pictures from Yali. There were taken in different places. They are from La Rica, a community outside Yali, others are from Yali and its surrounding areas. Have a nice day! -Keyla

God's Li'l Acre (GLA) Day Shelter (located in Lake City), provides space for our unhoused neighbors to use laundry facilities, showers, a community kitchen, internet and phone. It provides resource referrals, a food closet, personal storage, blankets, clothes, and the opportunity to just “be” in a safe and secure place.  The middle donation bin in the OLL Jubilee Hall foyer will now be dedicated to GLA, as the need is greater here than The Oaks on Aurora, at this point in time. Please consider that 70% of the guests at GLA are men. No children's items needed.

Drop off items like: blankets, shoes, pants, t-shirts, jackets, belts, phone charging cords, backpack or daypack, and towels (any size or condition).  Also any size shampoo, conditioner or lotion in a squeeze or pumphandle container (no dip-in containers). GLA Day Shelter is requesting Narcan kits. Order a free kit here. Also cash donations allow GLA Day Shelter the flexibility to make purchases based on need. To make a cash donation to God's Li'l Acre go to their website.

St. Louise de Marillac, one of the French Vincentian founders, lived in the 1600s, an unsettling time in which untold numbers of people suffered from poverty. Her charism was to creatively and tangibly love them as they struggled to survive.

As we emulate her practice, we are so grateful for your generous partnership in this ministry. Incredibly, last month we made more than 100 visits to distribute more than $10,000 worth of food, clothing, rent and utility payments, and gasoline.

He Is Risen! OLL St. Vincent de Paul

Did you know that during the listening stage of the current global Synod, the issue of “rethinking women’s participation” emerged as critical and urgent across nearly every report submitted to the Vatican? Join Catholics from across Western Washington on May 6 from 9-12pm for Receive Her in the Lord, a synodal thematic forum on women’s participation in the Church. At this gathering we will reflect together on the fruits of the first phase of the global synod and explore where the Holy Spirit is calling us as Catholics in Western Washington to move on the theme of women in the Church. Register online here. (P.S. This event is not just for women! Women’s participation in the life of the Church impacts all of the people of God; all are welcome at this event.)

Members of our OLL Synod Committee will be in attendance as this is also a topic we would like to cover in a future Synod Town Hall. Email ljackman@ollseattle.org if you would like to carpool.

Partners in Gospel is a strategic pastoral planning effort taking place across the Archdiocese of Seattle to re-invigorate and renew our local Catholic Church. To learn more about Partners in the Gospel, please visit the website, HERE, where you will find links to the timeline, a Q&A section, and a spot to sign up for the newsletter.

In Laudato Si’, Pope Francis invites us to “discover what each of us can do” as we build a better future together. (LS 19) Responding to the call of Laudato Si’ means embracing new ways of living, as our growing awareness of the connections between all things is translated to concrete action.

As you seek information on ways to take action, you are warmly invited to use the resources linked HERE.