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A beautiful reminder to cherish the hectic schedules, numerous gatherings and celebrations that often come this time of year! ❤️ Breathe it all in, love it all out.
Jesus said to his disciples:
“You are the salt of the earth.
But if salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned?
It is no longer good for anything
but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.
You are the light of the world.
A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.
Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket;
it is set on a lampstand,
where it gives light to all in the house.
Just so, your light must shine before others,
that they may see your good deeds
and glorify your heavenly Father.”
Matthew 5:13-16
Meet Our New Auxiliary Bishop
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Fr. Felipe Pulido, the son of Jose M. Pulido and Cristina Lopez, was born January 13, 1970 in a small town west of Mexico City called Dos Aguas Michoacan. He is the oldest of seven children. At the age of 12, he joined the seminary in Uruapan Michoacán, Mexico. There he studied middle and High School. He then came to Yakima Valley with his parents in the summer of 1988, where he has lived ever since. As a teenager, Fr. Felipe worked in the fields picking pears, apples, asparagus and cherries and packing fruit. However, during the fall and winter he went to Naches High School and then to Highland High School in Cowiche Washington where he got his High School diploma.
He worked as a teacher assistant the following three year at Epic Migrant Head Start program in Yakima. At the same time, he was taking care of a sick priest, Fr. Jerry Corrigan. Fr. Felipe felt a strong desire to become a priest for the Diocese of Yakima and in 1994; he began his priestly formation at Mt. Angel Seminary in Oregon where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy in 1998 and the same year became a United States Citizen. His theological studies began in the fall of 1998 in Rome Italy.
After studying Italian for several weeks, he entered the Pontifical North American College in Rome and in 2001 was awarded an STB (Bachelor of Sacred Theology) degree from the Angelicum University there. He studied one year at the John Paul II Institute in Rome for an STL (License in Sacred Theology) Due to the need of priests in the diocese of Yakima he did not finished the STL but returned home. He was ordained a priest in June 28, 2002 at St. Paul’s cathedral in Yakima by then Bishop Carlos A. Sevilla, S.J.
Father Felipe first assignment as a new priest was as an associate pastor at Holy Family Parish in Yakima in 2002. The following year he was sent to be a parochial Vicar at Our Lady of Fatima in Moses Lake and Queen of All Saint in Warden. Then he became a full time pastor at Our Lady of the Snows in Leavenworth and St. Francis Xavier in Cashmere. After two and half years, he was made pastor of Our Lady of Fatima Parish in Moses Lake and Queen of All Saint in Warden Washington. Around the same time he was name co-director of vocations to the priesthood in our Diocese. In 2011, he was appointed Director of Vocations in the Diocese of Yakima and full time pastor at Saint Joseph Parish in Yakima. Recently served as pastor of Saint Joseph Parish in Kennewick, Wash., while also serving for many years as Vicar for Clergy and Vicar for Vocations. In the latter assignment, he has worked closely with the Bishop in the recruitment, training and supervision of seminarians (those training to become priests).
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Meet Our New Auxiliary Bishop
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I was born in 1967 in Da Nang, Viet Nam, when there was conflict between North and South Viet Nam. In 1975, my family and extended family migrated to further South Viet Nam to live on a farm in order to survive. When I was about 10 years old, I noticed a priest in town who was very involved with his parishioners. He visited the families often and was kind to all people. I thought, “I want to be like that.” In 1980, when I was 13 years old, I with my older sister, my younger brother left Viet Nam on a boat to an island called Palau Bidong, Malaysia. In 1981, we were sponsored by an American family to live in Blue Earth, Minnesota. Another sister came a few months later, and a couple years later, the rest of the family joined us. The weather was too cold for my parents, so our family, except one sister, moved to San Diego in 1985. Though church was still important to me, my focus was more on academics. I finished high school at San Diego High, and then I went to San Diego State to earn an engineering degree. In my third year of college, I took a course in philosophy to meet general education requirements. This course raised many questions in my mind. At this time, I told my father during family dinner that I wanted to explore the priesthood. He did not say a word. At the next night’s dinner, he finally said, “if anyone of your brothers who want to go into the priesthood, I would let them, but not you.” I thought that my dad and I had such a good relationship, and I didn’t understand why he would not allow me to go. I respectfully continued to finish my college and after college, I began working and helping out at our parish church, Good Shepherd. The call to the priesthood became more intense. I asked my father a second time. The answer was again negative. I strongly felt I had to do this, otherwise, I would regret it. On my own, I applied for the seminary in the Diocese of San Diego. My parents soon realized that they couldn’t stop me from entering the seminary, and they finally accepted my request for their approval. I truly felt the hands of God working throughout the whole process for me to become a priest.
I entered St. Francis Seminary at USD in 1994, and then the faculty sent me to St. Patrick’s Seminary in San Francisco. I was ordained in 1999 for the Diocese of San Diego. On the day of my ordination, I felt incredible joy, happiness, and peace. My parents and siblings were very happy for me. As a priest, all I wanted was to serve God’s people in the celebration of the Eucharist and to gather all people to be united in Christ in the life of service, charity, and love. Through the course of my priesthood, God had shown me his great love and grace in my life as I served the community of St. Mary Star of the Sea, the community of St. Francis’ Seminary as vocation director, the community of Holy Family, the community of St. Therese, and the community of Good Shepherd. Even though life and ministries can be difficult sometimes, I would not trade it for anything. To be able to serve others, especially to needy, the marginalized, and the poor because they need the most, gives great satisfaction and affirms my journey’s choices.
Thus, I really appreciate Pope Francis always mindful of the ones in the peripheries. Over the years, he has chosen a number of cardinals from areas where they are small and unknown to many people. Pope Francis also opened the Synod on Synodality to hear the voice of the people, especially reaching out to weak, the vulnerable, marginalized, and those on the peripheries. For these reasons, I feel my priesthood is so worthwhile to serve the church and to lead people and cultures to be one in Christ. It is truly a privilege and an honor to become a priest. And now, I am being called to serve the church in a greater capacity as bishop. I don’t know what I have, but I hope and pray through the guidance of the Holy Spirit to give me wisdom, knowledge, and strength to take on this task that Pope has entrusted to me to serve God’s people.
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The Catholic Church
is everywhere, really. She even gave us our morning Cappuccino (from the Capuchin monk who invented it).
The world benefits from the Church on a daily basis without even knowing it.
For example, even though none of us want to be in a hospital, we’re certainly glad
they exist when we need them.
But did you know that the Catholic Church
was the one to invent hospitals
as we know them today?
Early hospitals (we’re talking 4th century) were called basilias—named for Saint Basil—
due to his efforts to establish health care centers all over the Roman empire.
Public schools and Universities, Social services, a rule of Law, Human Rights-the list goes on.
Our Catholic faith is not about membership but discipleship. A discipleship of faith that continues to serve, to be a gift “for the world”.
Thank you to all who so generously and courageously live their lives in service “for the world.” ❤️🙏❤️ #healthcareheroes #thankateacher #holygrounds #dignityofpersons #charity #aheartforservice
Kate Torres-Recto <3
As we gather this coming Sunday to celebrate the Feast of Corpus Christi, let us do so with open hands. Not with fear or doubt, but with humble openness. May we allow our hearts to open, our hands to be filled and ourselves to be fed with the bread of life. Come, come to the table of the Lord.
Please keep Pope Francis in your prayers 🙏
The operation, scheduled by the medical team assisting the Holy Father in recent days, became necessary due to an incarcerated incisional hernia causing recurring, painful, and worsening sub-occlusive symptoms.
The hospital stay will last several days to allow for the ordinary postoperative course and full functional recovery.
As we celebrate this feast of Corpus Christi, a reprise of Holy Thursday, we are invited to join the disciples in hearing Jesus' invitation to receive the bread of Communion and to drink the cup of the new covenant with him. St. Augustine teaches us: "If you want to understand the body of Christ, listen to the apostle telling the faithful, You, though, are the body of Christ and its members (1 Cor 12.27).
Sermon 272
According to St. Augustine, the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ is our feast day. On this day, like every Sunday, we repeat the celebration that forges our identity and strengthens us to be the very body of Christ that we receive. Jesus let his disciples know that joining him in the celebration of the Passover was an event of communion in his self-giving love. Celebrating the body and blood of Christ always calls us to do what he commanded: to share our lives as he did. When we dare to say "Amen," we proclaim, "Yes, we will receive what we are and be what we eat."
-St. Joseph Sr. Mary M. McGlone
*Corpus Christi is celebrated at all masses this weekend, concluding with EUCHARISTIC PROCESSION
Sunday, June 11TH
after the 11AM Mass
