Category Archives: Pastor’s Note

As has been their tradition for many years, the Soy House restaurant near Marine Heritage Park donated all of their Easter revenues to the parish, totaling almost $3,000 this year. Even during a pandemic that has been so hard on so many restaurants, this parish family decided they still wanted to give back to GodContinue reading “April 09, 2021 – Pastor’s Note”

By traditional standards, this Lent has not gone well for me. The only penance or additional practice I took on was adding Wednesday as a fast day, and even that entails little more than purposefully skipping lunch. I was faithful to it, sure, but I fast most Fridays of the year anyway, so it wasn’tContinue reading “March 26, 2021 – Pastor’s Note”

With Spring weather beginning, I recently took a couple of walks around Bellingham, which were really the first walking tours I had taken since I arrived here (apart from the periodic trips to Arliss’s). I have been particularly fascinated by Whatcom Creek and following it from Bellingham Bay inland.  This, of course, led me toContinue reading “March 19, 2021 – Pastor’s Note”