‘Prepares’ volunteer opens her heart to support young families
Her first love, Pam Ames says, is her big family — eight siblings and their families, five adult children and 10 grandchildren.
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‘It’s a group thing’ – Students feel unity through study of the Eucharist
With so many things out of control during the pandemic, Joe Oczkewicz has found refuge in school conversations about the Eucharist.
Open eyes and open hearts
Driving a refrigerated rental truck to far-flung places like Forks isn’t exactly in Nick Leider’s job description.
‘A ministry of service’
Archbishop Paul D. Etienne will ordain 21 men to the permanent diaconate during a livestreamed Mass December 19 at St. James Cathedral.
Forty years of touching souls
It was October 1980 and Leonardo Defilippis had “a crazy dream”: to use his training as a Shakespearean actor to bring St. Luke’s Gospel to life in a one-man production at churches around the Pacific Northwest.
For parishes and prisoners, a chance for transformation
Despite wildfire smoke and COVID-19 limitations, Linda Ellis drove on a September morning to a shared housing building in Seattle.
Burying the dead at the 'gate of heaven'
Richard Peterson has worked for the Archdiocese of Seattle’s cemeteries for 44 years, a career he began as a seasonal grounds worker while attending college seminary. He later was named superintendent of Gethsemane Cemetery in Federal Way and in 1991 was appointed Director of Cemeteries for the archdiocese. Peterson, president…
Proclaiming the word of God
Jim Russell recommends a simple prayer to readers as they approach the ambo to proclaim the word of God at Mass: “Please don’t let me screw up.”
A history of the archdiocese in 10 objects
The Archives of the Archdiocese of Seattle date back to the 1840s when our first bishop, A.M.A. Blanchet, and his vicar general, Father Jean-Baptiste Brouillet, began to set aside records documenting the building and administration of the church in this region. Since then, generations of archivists have faithfully preserved materials…