St. Elizabeth Ann Seton 

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Community is a welcoming and active, Roman Catholic parish serving the community of Mill Creek / Bothell, Washington. Our parish is served by the Religious Congregation of the Missionaries of the Holy Spirit under the Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle. We are a diverse community of believers, guided by the Holy Spirit and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We are a community that welcomes all people, inviting them into our spiritual home as we deepen our relationship with God. We are one faith family, united by our Lord and Savior,  Jesus Christ. Welcome to our faith community. I invite you to join us for liturgy and fellowship. 

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“In our continuing catechesis on the family, we reflect ... on the connection between the family and the Christian community. The Church is the home of those who believe in Jesus Christ as the source of the unity of the entire human family. Christ chose to enter our history, to become part of a human family, and to form a community which welcomes all who wish to hear his good news of the Father’s love.” - Pope Francis

San Lorenzo and San Pedro devoted the whole of their lives not to their own comfort or advancement but rather to the Lord and to the mission of spreading the Gospel. And when called to give their lives as witness to Christ and to his love, they did so willingly and courageously. San Lorenzo and San Pedro lived for the Lord and they died for the Lord. 

Dear brothers and sisters, in our Christian life, we have to accept what is spiritual and pleasing to God, rejecting what is sinful and offensive to God. Those who renounce God adopt sin because their actions are sinful and offensive to God. Those who do not want to hear anything about the Catholic faith through which God's grace flows for the salvation of mankind, also adopt sin. Those who persecute God's children because of their faith, they are also feeding on sin. Those who intimidate people who worship Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist, are also driven by sin. All these actions, although they are crosses that we must bear as Christians, are nothing compared to the crosses that befell those who shed their blood for Christ. Every year, we are struck by the fact that dozens of priests, seminarians, religious men and women, catechists, missionaries, and other Christians are murdered because of their faith in Christ. These martyrs reflect only a small percentage of the many other Christians killed in several countries, in most of these nations the Catholic faith is only a minority of the population. While the lives of many of the faithful go unnoticed in the book of Catholic martyrs of this world, all these martyrs are glorified for having followed in the footsteps of our Lord Jesus Christ when they get to Heaven. Their names will never be forgotten.

In today's first reading, we hear how Jeremiah was mistreated by the king and his officers. These people of authority did not appreciate hearing the Word of God that was being prophesied by Jeremiah's mouth. While it cannot be denied that Jeremiah was giving bad news, he was doing this in obedience to God. In truth, it was not Jeremiah who spoke, but it was God who spoke through Jeremiah. As such, when the king and his officers rejected what they heard, they did not reject Jeremiah, they were rejecting God Himself.

Holy Scripture tells us that Jeremiah, like many of the Old Testament prophets, was persecuted frequently during his life. Being human like us, he didn't appreciate it and often feared for his life. Trapped between fearing God and wanting to serve him, and wanting to flee from a prophet's call, Jeremiah continually resisted his human nature by submitting to God in complete obedience until the end.

In the second reading from the Letter to the Hebrews, St. Paul reminds us that we as Christians must resist sin, in order for us not to get tired or discouraged, Jesus endured great hostility from sinners against his own person. In our fight against sin, none of us has resisted to the point of shedding our blood on the cross as Jesus did. Therefore, we must persevere and run the race that is presented to us, looking at Jesus as the pioneer and one who came to perfect our faith. Running the race means persevering in our faith until the end of our lives on earth. To persevere in our faith means that during our lives we must receive all the sacraments of the Church for which we qualify. This includes receiving on a regular basis the Sacrament of Confession and the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist in a state of grace.
 
In the Gospel of Luke today, we hear Jesus say, "I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it was already lit!" Fire is a symbol of the Holy Spirit and its actions of being a consuming fire like God. Jesus' ministry on earth included preparing the way for the coming of the Holy Spirit. The ministry of the Holy Spirit is to guide and teach us in all truth, to sanctify us and test our faith with fire.

Walking together as brothers and sisters

We are St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish.  A diverse Catholic family guided by the Holy Spirit, committed to serve others and deepen our relationship with the Heart of Jesus. 

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church is served by the Religious Congregation of the Missionaries of the Holy Spirit from
Christ the Priest Province under the
Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle.

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