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Pastor's Welcome Message

Welcome to St. James parish. We are delighted to have you reach us and hope that we can be of service to you.

Our parish is now over fifty years old, although there was a little mission church as early as 1888. We have about 3,500 families in the parish and a wide range of activities.

The parish is built on a sacramental model of the church. Everything begins and ends with the Eucharist and the other sacraments. Our life-blood is here. The church was originally built as an auditorium for a school, which was never built. In 1990 we remodeled the church to bring it into conformity with the principles of the Second Vatican Council: the community is now much closer to the altar, and the windows show the phases of the liturgical year that surrounds us. There is also a conscious effort that the community become involved and not be just a group of people watching what goes on at the altar. We try very hard to make our Liturgies life-giving. If this succeeds, everything else follows, and we become true stewards of God's creation.

And so I say again – welcome. If you have further questions or would like to join the parish, please call the office.

– Fr. Robert Smith, Pastor