St. Paschal Catholic Church - Spokane Valley

06/24/2026

Chewelah America 250 Community Parade In honor of America’s 250th Birthday the Chewelah Chamber is participating in the celebrations by hosting a community Parade! Thank you to our emcee for […]

06/22/2026

There will be no daily Mass at SJV June 22-26 and no Adoration or Confession at either SJV or St. Paschal during that time. Weekend Mass/Confession times will be the same.

06/21/2026

Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Entrance Antiphon:
The Lord is the strength of his people, a saving refuge for the one he has anointed. Save your people, Lord, and bless your heritage, and govern them for ever." (Cf. Ps 28 (27): 8-9)

Catechism:
It is then we must turn to the witnesses of faith: to Abraham, who “in hope … believed against hope”; to the Virgin Mary, who, in “her pilgrimage of faith,” walked into the “night of faith”* in sharing the darkness of her son’s suffering and death; and to so many others: “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith.”

- I Believe, CCC 165

06/16/2026

Due to the wildfire and traffic concerns, there will be no Confession and no Adoration at St. Paschal tonight.

06/07/2026

The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) - Solemnity

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

06/01/2026

Sunday Mass: 8:00 am
Confession: Tuesday 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Adoration: Tuesday 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Parish Office is located at St. John Vianney Catholic Church
503 N. Walnut Rd.
Spokane Valley, WA 99214
(509) 926-5428
Email: [email protected]

05/24/2026

Pray with us- Day 9 of the Holy Spirit Novena

05/23/2026

Pentecost Sunday marks the end of the first novena and the Easter Season.

Pentecost (Whitsunday), with Christmas and Easter, ranks among the great feasts of Christianity. It commemorates not only the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and Disciples, but also the fruits and effects of that event: the completion of the work of redemption, the fullness of grace for the Church and its children, and the gift of faith for all nations.

Pentecost Sunday:

The mission of Christ and the Holy Spirit is brought to completion in the Church, which is the Body of Christ and the Temple of the Holy Spirit. This joint mission henceforth brings Christ’s faithful to share in his communion with the Father in the Holy Spirit. The Spirit prepares men and goes out to them with his grace, in order to draw them to Christ. The Spirit manifests the risen Lord to them, recalls his word to them and opens their minds to the understanding of his Death and Resurrection. He makes present the mystery of Christ, supremely in the Eucharist, in order to reconcile them, to bring them into communion with God, that they may “bear much fruit.”

- I Believe in the Holy Spirit, CCC 737

05/17/2026

“And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself.”* The lifting up of Jesus on the cross signifies and announces his lifting up by his Ascension into heaven, and indeed begins it. Jesus Christ, the one priest of the new and eternal Covenant, “entered, not into a sanctuary made by human hands … but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.”* There Christ permanently exercises his priesthood, for he “always lives to make intercession” for “those who draw near to God through him.”* As “high priest of the good things to come” he is the center and the principal actor of the liturgy that honors the Father in heaven.*

- He Ascended Into Heaven, and Is Seated at the Right Hand of God the Father Almighty, CCC 662

05/14/2026

Today!