St. Augustine Catholic Church

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National Eucharistic Pilgrimage to make closest pass by the diocese on Memorial Day — Inland Catholic Eastern Washington’s Source for Catholic News & Stories Since 1942 On May 17, the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage began in the four corners of the United States. Over the next two months, pilgrims of clergy and laity will process with Jesus in the Eucharist thousands of miles to Indianapolis, Indiana, for the National Eucharistic Congress , the climactic high po

"Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

🎄Tis’ the season! Come indulge your sweet tooth or pick up a homemade gift Dec 9th & 10th following all three masses at St Augustine. Proceeds support St Augustine Altar Society.

🔹Every grade, Preschool through 8th grade is involved in serving the surrounding community. Service in the younger grades involves collecting supplies like diapers, blankets, socks & gloves. Some of our older students travel off campus to deliver meals, visit folks, and assist with needs in the surrounding neighborhood.

Here’s a list of just SOME of the organizations we serve:

SCRAPS
Catholic Relief Services
St Margaret’s Women & Children center
Meals on Wheels
Salvation Army Foodbank
Second Harvest
ARC of Spokane
Blessings under the Bridge
YMCA Central Spokane
MLK Jr Family Outreach Center
House of Charity

We would like to extend our deepest gratitude for those serving in the military in order to protect and serve our country! Thank you for your service.

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Getting ready! Can’t wait to see you all for the Celebration of Light Gala tonight on the campus of Gonzga University in the Hemmingson Center ballroom!  Celebrating the Catholic schools of eastern Washington and the children who attend them.

❤️‍🔥 Happy Feast of St. Augustine of Hippo! St. Augustine is the patron of brewers and printers.

Please pray for the parish community of St. Augustine in Spokane as they celebrate their patron's feast day today.

Join us in praying today's collect:

Renew in your Church, we pray, O Lord, that spirit with which you endowed your Bishop Saint Augustine that, filled with the same spirit, we may thirst for you, the sole fount of true wisdom, and seek you, the author of heavenly love. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.

Looking forward to another fun and faith-filled year!

Cataldo Catholic School at St. Augustine Cataldo Catholic School is a premier choice for preschool through 8th grade education in Spokane.

Msgr. Brian Mee and Fr. Darrin Connall reunite for "The Lion and the Lamb" Lenten series to discuss the Seven Last Words of Christ. In this episode, they discuss the statement, "Father, forgive them, they know not what they do," (Luke 23:34) and how one cannot be touched by the Passion of Christ without some forgiveness.

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Bishop Daly of the Catholic Diocese of Spokane blesses the new St. Augustine Parish altar in a special Dedication Mass. It was a beautiful and joyous occasion!

The Diocese of Spokane is rich in good works! While our diocesan budget is relatively small, we have thriving ministries, which we are always looking to improve and expand. Put simply: your donation to the ACA funds the presence of the Catholic Church in Eastern Washington. Our mission is to encounter, live, and proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Your pledge is needed, appreciated, and used effectively and efficiently in our diocese.

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The teachers at Cataldo Catholic School receive a special blessing at Mass today. We ask you to pray for the students, teachers, and staff as they begin this new academic year.

Friends, on this day we remember St. Monica, who prayed persistently for the conversion of her son, St. Augustine of Hippo.

Even though petitionary prayer—asking God for something—seems simpler and more basic than contemplation, it’s more difficult to make sense of theologically. If God is omniscient, what is the point of telling him what you need? And if God cannot change, what is the point of asking him for anything?

The prayer for the liturgy of St. Monica sheds some light on these questions. The text begins as follows: “Lord, you graciously received the tears of Monica for the conversion of her son Augustine.” Mind you, it does not say that the tears of Monica moved God to act or compelled him somehow to change the structure of his providence. But it does say that God accepted those tears in coordination with granting the grace of conversion to her son, implying that God himself was effectively crying through the tears of Monica.

God indeed knows everything about everything, so he is aware of what we need before we ask; but like a good parent, he delights in receiving our tearful requests—even if, like a good parent, he does not always respond the way we would like him to. And God, as the unmoved mover, can never be changed by our prayer; but through whatever is good and right and true in our prayer, God is already praying through us.

Bishop urges Catholic educators to see importance of the Eucharist WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Addressing Catholic educators at an annual national conference, Bishop Thomas A. Daly of Spokane, Washington, urged them to make sure their work was always rooted in the importance of the Eucharist. The bishop, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Cat...

May the God and Father of all grant that the human family, through careful observance of the principle of religious freedom in society, be brought by the grace of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit to the sublime and unending and “glorious freedom of the sons of God” (Rom. 8:21).
—Dignitatis Humanae