Fr. Jim's Blog

Today we celebrate the Feast of St. Andrew, the apostle. The Word Among Us had a great reflection on how he couldn't keep his relationship with Christ to himself but was always seeking to help others find the joy of knowing and following him. Here is the Daily Reflection from the Word Among Us. Saint Andrew, Apostle “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news.” (Romans 10:15) How appropriate a reading for the feast of St. Andrew! A native of Gal­ilee, Andrew and his brother Simon Peter established a fishing business in the seaside town of Capernaum. Andrew probably had religious lean­ings early on. He was an ardent follower of John the Baptist and eagerly accepted John’s testimony that Jesus was the promised Lamb of God. As he followed Jesus, Andrew found the way to true happiness and the fulfillment of all God’s prom­ises as John had taught them. Thus, Andrew knew that unless people were told about Jesus and brought to meet Jesus as he had been, they wo...

Today I purchased two new domains for my website. If you use my old address of http://www.jnorthrop.com , you will automatically be redirected to http://www.thegraceofpentecost.com . This is the new address for my website.  I also purchased http://www.thegraceofpentecost.org in case I would like to use that for future use. I assumed someone would have already had this domain, but they didn't.  Once you are redirected to the new address, please change your bookmark if you had the old one set as a bookmark.  Thanks! 

I have been busy working with my new website software and have greatly revamped my website to make it easier to read and navigate through. I put banners on it that look like ads, but they send you to other resources. I have one I just completed with an exciting announcement about Fr. Donald Calloway who will be visiting us in the Spring. Click here to check out all of the changes. Have a blessed day!

I just finished podcasting the homily for this weekend's Mass. I did it from home as our deacon, José Blakely, gave a fine homily and suggested some ways to increase our relationship with Christ. Total Time: 11min40sec

I think I have everything working now with the new blog and subscribing for updates. There is a subscribe by email widget on the side of this post. Fill that out and validate it. Unlike WordPress, Blogger will only send notifications out in a two hour  period each day. I have chosen for the notifications to go out every morning from 7AM-9AM. This is a little more restrictive than the WordPress which sent out an email for each post that I blogged. Perhaps this is a safety feature for me to avoid what happened a couple of weeks ago when I blogged about something and wanted to erase it! It was too late! (Kind of like Ray Stevens' song The Streak with Ethel in the fruits and vegetables section...not sure any of you will remember this, but what the heck!) You can also subscribe to the RSS feed which would be updated with every post. But you need a reader or other program to use that. Have a great day!

I have had to spend sometime figuring out how to set-up the follow by email widget on my blog so that people can sign-up and be notified of changes. This is a test email to see if it is working properly.

Just making my way around town today and noticing a beautiful view of the snow-capped Olympic Mountains. This makes all the rainy days worthwhile around here.