Pastoral Care is provided in a number of ways— through visitations with a priest, though it can be the pastoral coordinator or pastoral assistants especially in parishes without a pastor like Saint Patrick Catholic Church. Most often it is fellow parishioners— like you.
Sometimes pastoral care is a meal train that assists a family such as the Ilacqua’s during a difficult time, like a health crisis.
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We in the Social Justice ministry feel especially called during this year of Mercy to create space and opportunities for all the members of our parish to participate in social justice activities that allow our hearts to be touched. Catholic social justice teaching is paramount to our faith and one of the church’s greatest contributions to the Christian tradition.
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The Catholic Home Missions Appeal is the weekend of February 13 – 14, 2016 at Saint Patrick Catholic Church. Many dioceses here in the United States do not have enough priests and trained lay ministers to serve their parishes. These dioceses are known as home missions.
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Father Howell’s talk on January 31, 2016 to a crowd of over 100 people, was the first of a series of talks to get to know Pope Francis and what he is doing and how he is affecting catholic thought and culture.
The second talk presented by Professor Catherine Punsalan-Manlimos, the Director of the Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture at Seattle University at 7 P.M. on Tuesday, February 23, 2016 in the Parish Center of Saint Patrick Catholic Church focuses on the Pope’s encyclical on the environment— Laudato Si.
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The Church is celebrating an extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy—a tenet of our faith that Pope Francis sees as one of the cornerstones of the Church. You are invited to celebrate the Jubilee Year of Mercy by living Lent more intensely.
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The NORTHWEST CATHOLIC Collection will be taken up the weekend of January 23 – 24, 2016. Saint Patrick Catholic Church helps support the NORTHWEST CATHOLIC monthly magazine through this special collection to share the costs of the publication.
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Parishioners will notice something is different in this
packet of Sunday offering envelopes. After all these years we are able to have our own unique full color St. Patrick offertory envelope.
The Sister Parish committees at Saint Patrick Catholic Church and Saint Wenceslaus are preparing for Christmas together. Father Libardo Valencia Hincapie, Pastor of Saint Wenceslaus in Bogota, Colombia—Saint Patrick Catholic Church’s Sister Parish, shared updates on parish life in his community with the Sister Parish Committee in Tacoma in early December 2015.
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As we come to the end of 2015, we want to thank you for your generous gifts throughout the year to support the ministries of Saint Patrick Catholic Church!
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Giving Tuesdays a worldwide day dedicated to giving back and celebrating generosity. The day of giving takes place on December 1, 2015 this year. Built on the gratitude felt during the Thanksgiving holiday and following the consumer-centered events of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday takes place on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.
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