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 2008 Confirmation Pictures

May 1 , 2008

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 2008 First Communion Pictures

May 3 , 2008

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 2008 Christmas Mass Changes

February 10, 2008

Before it’s too late, I wanted to thank you all for a wonderful Christmas celebration. I would like to make and announcement.

After consultation with those connected with the liturgy, parish staff, and the pastoral council, we have decided to fine-tune the Christmas Mass schedule for the following year. The schedule in the past has been: 5 pm, 9 pm, midnight, and 10 am. The new schedule is: 5 pm vigil, Midnight Mass, 8:30 am and 11 am. Here are the reasons for the change:

• 9:00 p.m. vigil Mass has been consistently the least attended Mass.
• The 8:30 a.m. choir has traditionally sang at the 9:00 p.m. Mass. This is outside the choir’s normal schedule; 9 p.m. is too late and too dark for many of the choir members. The new schedule allows the choir to sing at their usual time of 8:30 a.m.
• The 11:00 a.m. choir has traditionally sang both at Midnight and the 10:00 a.m. Mass. There are two adjustments with this schedule. With the revised schedule, there is only one adjustment and it gives the choir an extra hour between the Masses.
• The liturgy of the Church gives us 4 distinct readings for Christmas: vigil, midnight, Mass at dawn, and Mass during the day. The old schedule uses the vigil readings twice and drops the readings for Mass at dawn altogether. The new schedule allows the use of all four readings at the appropriate times.
• Lastly, it gives the priest a more humane schedule to follow and keeps him healthy during the Christmas season!

The new schedule will be effective for the next Christmas season. As we begin Lent, know that you are all in my prayers as we journey through this time of prayer, penance and almsgiving.

Fr. Qui-Thac Nguyen

 Official Lenten Regulations for the Archdiocese of Seattle

For this penitential season, the Church draws on the wisdom of the Scriptures and tradition in suggesting a time of intense prayer, fasting and almsgiving.

Catholics in the United States are obliged to abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday and on all Fridays during the season of Lent. Catholics are also obliged to fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Self-imposed observance of fasting on all weekdays of Lent is strongly recommended, as is abstinence from meat on all Fridays of the year.

Ash Wednesday is February 6, 2008. Good Friday is March 21, 2008.

Fasting. On a day of fasting, one full meal is allowed. Two other meals, sufficient to maintain strength, may be taken according to each one’s needs, but, together, they should not equal the other full meal. Eating between meals is not permitted, but liquids, including milk and juices, are permitted.

Abstinence. On days of abstinence, eating meat is not allowed.

The obligation of fasting binds Catholics who are 18 – 59 years old. The obligation of abstinence applies to those 14 years and older. The law does not oblige when health or ability to work would be seriously affected.