St. John Vianney Catholic Church - Spokane Valley

06/09/2026

There will be no Friday morning Mass (8:15 AM) on June 12th due to a Funeral Mass.

Please keep Jerry Nicholls and his family in your prayers.

06/07/2026

The mode of Christ’s presence under the Eucharistic species is unique. It raises the Eucharist above all the sacraments as “the perfection of the spiritual life and the end to which all the sacraments tend.” In the most blessed sacrament of the Eucharist “the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ and, therefore, the whole Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained.” “This presence is called ‘real’—by which is not intended to exclude the other types of presence as if they could not be ‘real’ too, but because it is presence in the fullest sense: that is to say, it is a substantial presence by which Christ, God and man, makes himself wholly and entirely present.”

It is by the conversion of the bread and wine into Christ’s body and blood that Christ becomes present in this sacrament. The Church Fathers strongly affirmed the faith of the Church in the efficacy of the Word of Christ and of the action of the Holy Spirit to bring about this conversion. Thus

St. John Chrysostom declares:

It is not man that causes the things offered to become the Body and Blood of Christ, but he who was crucified for us, Christ himself. The priest, in the role of Christ, pronounces these words, but their power and grace are God’s. This is my body, he says. This word transforms the things offered.

And St. Ambrose says about this conversion:

Be convinced that this is not what nature has formed, but what the blessing has consecrated. The power of the blessing prevails over that of nature, because by the blessing nature itself is changed... Could not Christ's word, which can make from nothing what did not exist, change existing things into what they were not before? It is no less a feat to give things their original nature than to change their nature.

- The Sacrament of the Eucharist, CCC 1374-1375

06/07/2026

I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingly power: proclaim the word; be persistent whether it is convenient or inconvenient; convince, reprimand, encourage through all patience and teaching. For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine but, following their own desires and insatiable curiosity, will accumulate teachers and will stop listening to the truth and will be diverted to myths. But you, be self-possessed in all circumstances; put up with hardship; perform the work of an evangelist; fulfill your ministry.

2 Timothy 4:1-5

06/04/2026

At that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Who thinkest thou is the greater in the kingdom of heaven? And Jesus calling unto him a little child, set him in the midst of them, And said: Amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is the greater in the kingdom of heaven. And he that shall receive one such little child in my name, receiveth me. But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea.

Matthew 18:1-6 DRA

06/04/2026

FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR PARISHIONER MICHAEL GROVES - let’s pack the church for Michael!

06/03/2026

Happy feast day of St. Charles Lwanga!

06/02/2026

It takes so little to attend and assist at Holy Mass. And the benefits, the effects are infinite.

The mass is the greatest investment
plan known to man.

Of course, though the mass is infinite power, our participation is finite and imperfect. And so again, we need continually having masses offered up.

So the mass is first and foremost a sacrifice. The sacrifice of Christ himself on the cross transported if you

This talk is an excerpt from our recent Virtual Day of Recollection...

06/02/2026

05/31/2026

The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is the central mystery of Christian faith and life. It is the mystery of God in himself. It is therefore the source of all the other mysteries of faith, the light that enlightens them. It is the most fundamental and essential teaching in the “hierarchy of the truths of faith.”* The whole history of salvation is identical with the history of the way and the means by which the one true God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, reveals himself to men “and reconciles and unites with himself those who turn away from sin.”*

- I. “In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”, CCC 234

The Trinity is a mystery of faith in the strict sense, one of the “mysteries that are hidden in God, which can never be known unless they are revealed by God.”* To be sure, God has left traces of his Trinitarian being in his work of creation and in his Revelation throughout the Old Testament. But his inmost Being as Holy Trinity is a mystery that is inaccessible to reason alone or even to Israel’s faith before the Incarnation of God’s Son and the sending of the Holy Spirit.

- I. “In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”, CCC 237

05/31/2026

Ant. O holy, undivided Trinity, Creator
and Ruler of all that exists, may all praise
be yours now, for ever, and for ages
unending.

Lauds, Morning Prayer, Sunday, May 31, 2026.Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity.with Paul Rose and Fr. Nathaniel SandersMade without AI. 100% human vocals, 10...