Category Archives: Pastor’s Note

I have received incredible consolation over the last three weeks as I have driven around Bellingham to provide the Eucharist to our parishioners or as I have received different families on the back porch of the parish offices for Eucharistic visits. First and foremost, this is because people are receiving the sacraments, even in lockdown!Continue reading “May 11, 2020 – Pastor’s Note”

For me, the most surreal experiences during this crisis have been when things are not, for a moment, surreal. The world is ending, right? This is one of those historic plagues that you read about in history books, is it not? We did voluntarily shut down our economy, didn’t we? And yet, something normal hasContinue reading “May 04, 2020 – Pastor’s Note”

There are a lot of things that are frustrating about this Coronavirus shutdown, but the one I am finding most maddening at the moment is just how much we do not know about the future. I am a guy who likes goals and plans and, even if the terminus is excruciatingly far away, if IContinue reading “April 27, 2020 – Pastor’s Note”

The news has been mixed lately. On the one hand, there are signs of hope. Social distancing has worked to keep our hospitals and healthcare workers from being overwhelmed! We have experienced deaths, all of them tragic, but fewer than might have been without the measures. On the other hand, the experts are warning usContinue reading “April 20, 2020 – Pastor’s Note”