Colville, Kettle Falls, Northport Tri-Parish Catholic Community

06/13/2026

Progress on moving the pews back into the nave!

06/12/2026

06/11/2026

Please save the date!
An Open House to honor Ozzie and Ginny Wilkinson's contributions to our community will be held on July 9, 2026 at The Hub in Colville, 5:30-8:30 p.m. We all have been touched by Ozzie and Ginny's generosity, donation of their time and organization, spirituality and love in the years we have known them. If you have a short special story you would like to have shared at this Open House please send it to
[email protected] by Friday, June 26. Further details will follow. Please share.

06/08/2026

Photos from the Corpus Christi procession at Immaculate Conception this Sunday!

06/06/2026

Dear parishioners and guests,

I am thoroughly enjoying reading Fr. Donald Haggerty’s book Conversion: Spiritual Insights into an Essential Encounter with God, which I have been sharing with you for the past several Sundays. Here I share another very insightful excerpt:

“For all the drama and protracted struggle that often accompany a serious conversion, the soul may be only briefly flooded with peace. Everything is not at all so settled and secure. Especially in a young man or woman who has open options, a return to grace raises more questions, provokes further, unresolved yearnings. A deeper, unknown reality in life now beckons with unexplored promise. The prospect of experiencing God at a greater depth of intimacy is likely soon to seize the soul. At first it is hardly felt, and even ignored, but the repetition of this offer can pulse with insistence, at least for a period of time. It would seem that God exercises a pattern with souls during this interlude. For along with the invitation to seek him and to taste his truth in a personal way, God seems to pose a more radical and distressing question. This question cannot be trifled with or delayed for too long without a loss. Soon it may no longer disturb the soul, and something irrecoverable can be squandered. A sacred possibility burns in these days that a soul may not realize sufficiently...to belong completely to God? to give entirely to God? Never are these words shouted; never are they heard in a tone of forceful command. Rather, a whisper speaks them gently from a depth inside the soul. They demand attention and courage because the voice is soft. It is a quiet, delicate summons and, for that reason, easily deflected or silenced. The risk is that the invitation will fade without notice, disappearing beneath the flow of life sweeping across the surface of days. For a limited time, the need for recognition will press upon the soul as though a kind of mysterious deadline is present. Yet a soul may not realize it. An impulse of generosity must take place, the awakening of a perception. Otherwise, the courage for great things present for a time after a conversion will begin to dull. Giving oneself in a great gift to God may soon seem a bizarre and quixotic notion, the imaginings of a temporary delirium. Caution and hesitancy and indecisiveness toward God will intrude, a fear of unnamed costs in getting too close to God. It may not take long before the attraction of a bold choice for God will drift into forgetfulness. This of course does not mean that a soul loses faith. What it does lose, and for some souls not without a lifelong regret, is the fire of a love and a longing for God that with one resolute leap might have become the great passion of an entire life.”

Fr. Kenny St. Hilaire, Pastor

06/06/2026

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, also known as the Feast of Corpus Christi, is Sunday June 7th. Come join us after Mass at Immaculate Conception in our annual Corpus Christi procession!

06/02/2026

Frassati Group send-off meeting for Fr. Kenny! The next meeting will be at the end of June, contact Marti Axtell for details.

06/01/2026

Last Youth Group meeting of the year, themed “Dress for the Wrong Occasion”

05/30/2026

Dear parishioners and guests,

In our ongoing examination of the theme of conversion, I must point out that the work of conversion is a joint effort between God and the individual. We mustn’t fall into the trap of thinking conversion is something we bring about in ourselves. Nor should we wait around, thinking that – any day now – God will snap his fingers and transform us into perfect saints!

Look to the example of St. Paul (formerly known as Saul). His conversion was not accomplished only in falling to the ground and hearing Jesus speak to him. His response to Jesus’ communication to him was an important factor in the change that took place in his life.

Reflecting again on sinful periods preceding moments of conversion in our life, it is important for us to remember that when the conversion eventually happened, it wasn’t we who brought ourselves to God. It was God who brought us, with at least some degree of cooperation on our part, to himself.

Fr. Donald Haggerty, in his book Conversion: Spiritual Insights into an Essential Encounter with God, puts it well:

“After a serious conversion, strangely enough, the entire past can become sacred, including the times of great sin. Not that these sins are falsely honored or lifted up for show with a pretense of bravado and vanity. Something more spiritually rich can occur. Even the most regrettable deeds can become part of a blessed recollection, at least to some extent. Of course they are not fond memories, nor are they items for nostalgia. At the same time there is no need to turn back repeatedly in shame. To scour and scrape away at memories would be to forget that God was always present even when he was far from our mind and we seemed most eager for our own destruction. The great insight in looking back upon past sin is to realize that God did not descend out of nowhere upon the hour of conversion. He was an unrecognized companion even while we walked the dark path. Many times he gave quiet hints of himself, which we did not see. Often he was reaching out a hand of protection even when we had no sense of a protector close by. We might not have survived in life otherwise. He was never far behind our back, even as we turned it to him in those days.”

What a profound reminder of the truth of our walk through life in this world. Even in times when we feel far from God, he has not abandoned us. Far to the contrary, he is at work, mysteriously transforming our downfalls into the means of our salvation.

Fr. Kenny St. Hilaire, Pastor