Christmas 2016. It was a beautiful Christmas at St.
James Cathedral!
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Sunday, December 18, 2016. We celebrated with
Father Ryan the Golden Jubilee of his Ordination to the Priesthood.
It was a wonderful celebration!
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album.
Sunday, December 11, 2016. Our annual Advent
Readings and Carols Service filled the Cathedral tonight with
transcendent music and candlelight.
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album.
Saturday, December 10, 2016. We celebrated
Simbang Gabi, the blessing of coordinators of parish Advent
celebrations from around the Archdiocese.
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album.
Saturday, December 3, 2016. The wonderful
celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mother of the Americas, is one
of the most joy-filled of the year.
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album of the procession.
Sunday, November 27, 2016. We began the
beautiful season of Advent, four weeks of watching and waiting for
the coming of the Lord.
Thursday, November 24, 2016. We began our
national holiday with our best prayer of Thanksgiving: the Mass.
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Ryan's homily for today.
Sunday, November 13, 2016. We marked the end of the Year of Mercy as
we solemnly closed the Jubilee Doors of Mercy. Father Ryan invited
all to process through the doors at the conclusion of each Mass. "It
will be a strong, symbolic way of saying that we are going to take
out there – to our homes, our neighborhoods, our workplaces, to the
world in which we live – we are going to take out there the message
our world needs more than ever to hear: the message we receive in
this place week after week from a loving God, the message of mercy –
God’s mercy for us and the mercy we are to give to others."
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Ryan's homily for today.
Friday, November 11, 2016. Tonight's 5:30pm
Mass was offered in memory of the men and women who died homeless on
the streets and in the shelters of Seattle in the past year. After
Mass, all gathered in the Cathedral Courtyard as the bell was tolled
eighty-nine times in memory of the dead.
Wednesday, November 2, 2016. On the
Commemoration of the Faithful Departed, we celebrated a Solemn
Requiem Mass with the Cathedral Choir and Chamber Orchestra
performing the transcendent Requiem of Gabriel Faure, under
the direction of Dr. Paul Thornock.
Sunday, October 30, 2016. We celebrated the
Sacrament of Baptism with five beautiful children and their
families.
Sunday, October 2, 2016. Our First Sunday Youth
Celebration took place at the Noon Mass. It was a treat to have the
Schola Cantorum back to lead us in song!
Saturday, October 1, 2016. We welcomed Father Joseph Corpora,
CSC, to preach a "Mission of Mercy" at St. James Cathedral. Father Corpora received a mandate from Pope Francis to
be a Missionary of Mercy, and was commissioned to be a special confessor and a “living sign” of
God’s forgiveness during the Holy Year of Mercy. The morning
concluded with a solemn Rosary for Vocations led by Bishop Elizondo.
Sunday, September 25, 2016. We celebrated the
Rite of Reception at the 10 o'clock Mass.
Sunday, September 18, 2016. Father Ryan gave
a special blessing to the catechists who will be teaching our young
people the ways of faith in the coming months.
Sunday, September 18, 2016. We celebrated the
baptism of eight beautiful infants at the 10:00am Mass.
Sunday, September 11, 2016. The Cathedral
Choir returned in all its glory after its summer hiatus.
August 8-12, 2016. Our Schola Cantorum Choir
Camp gathered fifty kids at the Cathedral for a week of prayer,
singing, and service. Click
here to visit the Choir Camp page.
Sunday, July 24, 2016. We celebrated our
patron, James the Greater, at all Masses.
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album!
Saturday, June 25, 2016. Archbishop Sartain
ordained five young men to the priesthood in the presence of more
than 100 priests and 1,300 of the faithful.
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album.
Wednesday, June 15, 2016. We observed an
Interfaith Prayer, Vigil, and Procession in memory of those killed
in Orlando. Click here
to read Father Ryan's remarks and view the album.
Saturday, June 11, 2016. On a rainy Saturday
afternoon, faculty of Seattle University line up on the steps as the
Seattle University Baccalaureate begins.
Saturday, June 4, 2016. At the 5:30pm Mass,
Archbishop Sartain blessed over a hundred pilgrims who will travel
to Krakow in Poland later this summer.
Sunday, May 29, 2016. Corpus Christi fell
during Memorial Day weekend this year. The rain held off just long
enough for the Corpus Christi Procession!
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Thursday, May 26, 2016. We celebrated
the Holy Names Academy Baccalaureate Mass. Congratulations, Class of
2016!
Sunday, May 15, 2016. Pentecost. At the
beginning of the Noon Mass, children join in the entrance procession
holding flames, symbols of Pentecost.
Sunday, May 15, 2016. Huge banners are hung
in the Cathedral in preparation for Pentecost.
Friday, May 6, 2016. On the First Friday of
each month, we gather for a contemplative, ecumenical evening prayer
with music from Taize, France.
Thursday, May 5, 2016. We celebrated the
Sacrament of Confirmation with Archbishop Sartain and a wonderful
group of young people and adults who have been preparing for this
sacrament. Click
here for the album.
Thursday, May 5, 2016. Archbishop Sartain
presided at Mass with the O'Dea High School community on the feast
of Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice.
Sunday, May 1, 2016. At the Noon Mass,
forty-three beautiful children celebrated their First Holy
Communion.
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Sunday, April 24, 2016. We celebrated the
Rite of Reception into Full Communion at the 10 o'clock Mass.
Wednesday, April 20, 2016. At the O'Dea High School
Mass, two young men were received into the Full Communion of the
Catholic Church.
Sunday, April 3, 2016. On this Divine Mercy
Sunday, infants were baptized at the 10 o'clock Mass.
Sunday, March 27, 2016. It was a beautiful
Easter morning at St. James Cathedral.
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complete Triduum and Easter album.
Saturday, March 26, 2016. We celebrated the Great
Easter Vigil, the high point of the liturgical year.
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complete Triduum and Easter Album.
Friday, March 25, 2016. Good Friday.
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complete Triduum and Easter Album.
Sunday, March 20, 2016. Palm Sunday of the
Lord's Passion. Holy Week begins with the magnificent procession of
palms. Click here for
the album.
Thursday, March 17, 2016. Archbishop Sartain
presided at the solemn Chrism Mass.
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Sunday, March 13, 2016. Our Elect, those preparing
for baptism at the Easter Vigil, celebrate the last of the three
Scrutiny rites.
Sunday, March 13, 2016. The Cathedral
Cantorei sing at the 10:00am Mass.
Saturday, March 12, 2016. At the Jubilee for
Special Needs, Stacey Sunde conducts a festival choir of youth and
adults.
Sunday, March 6, 2016. At the conclusion of the
Noon Mass, Father Ryan, Archbishop Sartain, and cathedral children
pray the Way of Mercy in the Cathedral.
The Way of Mercy is a journey
of prayer through the Cathedral which many thousands of pilgrims are
making during this Year of Mercy.
Saturday, March 5, 2016. In union with the Church
throughout the world, we observed a Day of Mercy, with priest
confessors in the Cathedral from 9:00am to 5:00pm. Hundreds came to
celebrate the Sacrament of God's Mercy in this Year of Mercy.
Thursday, February 11, 2016. At the Rite of
Election, those preparing for baptism, confirmation, and Eucharist
at the Easter Vigil sign their names in the Book of the Elect.
Sunday, January 17, 2016. We celebrated Santo Nino--the
Holy Child Jesus at the Noon Mass. Many brought their own beloved images of the
child Jesus from home for the blessing.
Sunday, January 10, 2016. We marked the Solemnity of the
Baptism of the Lord with the baptism of three beautiful children at the Noon
Mass.
Sunday, January 3, 2016. The Epiphany of the Lord brought the
Kings to the Christmas Crib. They left a gift of candy for the children at the
Noon Mass! |
