Mass Times
& Confession
Queen of Angels | Port Angeles
Sunday Mass
Vigil | Sat. 5:00 pm
Sunday | 8:30 am
Daily Mass
Thursday | 9:30 am
Friday | 9:30 am (School Mass)
Confessions
Saturdays | 3:00 – 4:30 pm
Confessions are heard in the church.
St. Joseph | Sequim
Sunday Mass
Sunday | 11:00 am & 1:00 pm
Spanish Mass | 11:00 am on the 3rd Sunday of each month
Daily Mass
Tuesday | 12:00 pm noon
Wednesday | 6:30 pm
Confessions
Tuesday | 11:00 am
Wednesday | 5:00 pm
Confessions are heard in the church.
St. Anne | Forks
Sunday Mass
Vigil (español) | Sat. 6:00 pm
Sunday | 8:30 am
Daily Mass
Wednesday | 12:00 pm
Thursday | 12:00 pm
2nd Wednesday each month | Praise & Worship at 7:00 pm, followed by Charismatic Mass at 8:00 pm. Mass and adoration in Spanish.
Segundo miércoles de cada mes: Alabanza y Adoración a las 7:00 pm, seguido de Misa Carismática a las 8:00 pm. Misa y adoración en español.
Confessions
Saturdays | 4:30 pm
Confessions are heard in the church.
St. Thomas | Clallam Bay
Sunday Mass
Sunday | 11:00 am
Directions
& Office Hours
Queen of Angels | Port Angeles
Office Hours
Monday | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm
Tuesday | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm
Wednesday | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm
Thursday | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm
Friday | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm
209 W. 11th St.
Port Angeles, WA 98362
Phone: (360) 452-2351
Fax: (360) 452-1447
Email: qa@clallamcatholic.org
St. Joseph | Sequim
Office Hours
Monday | 9:00 am – 2:00 pm
Tuesday | 9:00 am – 2:00 pm
Wednesday | 9:00 am – 2:00 pm
Thursday | 9:00 am – 2:00 pm
Friday | 9:00 am – 2:00 pm
121 E. Maple St.
Sequim, WA 98382
Phone: (360) 683-6076
Fax: (360) 683-4674
Email: sj@clallamcatholic.org
St. Anne | Forks
Office Hours
Wednesday | 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Thursday | 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Tues – Fri. | by appointment
Physical: 511 5th Ave.
Mailing: PO Box 2359
Forks, WA 98331
Phone: (360) 374-9184
After hours, call: (360) 452-2351
Email: sast@clallamcatholic.org
St. Thomas | Clallam Bay
Office Hours
No office. Church address noted below for those wishing to attend Sunday Mass.
52 Pioneer St.
Clallam Bay, WA
Phone: (360) 374-9184
After hours, call: (360) 452-2351
Email: sast@clallamcatholic.org
Bulletin
& Quick Links
Quick Links & Forms
Emergency Line: (360) 809-6907 (for emergencies involving death or dying only)
First Holy Communion 2025-26
Registration Form
Help build a life of love for Jesus and His Church in your little one’s heart and mind!
Preparatory classes for the Sacraments of Reconciliation and First Holy Communion are open to baptized children in 2nd Grade or higher. Parental participation is vital throughout the process.
Confirmation 2025-26
Registration Form
The Sacrament of Confirmation follows the Sacraments of Baptism, First Reconciliation, and First Communion. Preparation for the Rite of Confirmation involves a period of commitment to learning, prayer, and service.
OCIA | Thursdays
Interested in becoming Catholic?
This year’s cohort for BOTH St. Joseph and Queen of Angels (Sequim, Port Angeles, and surrounding areas) will meet in Port Angeles this year. We meet at 6:30 pm on Thursday evenings, starting Sept. 4.
We’re also looking for sponsors, godparents, and other Catholics to serve as companions along the journey. Have a heart for those seeking? The story of your own conversion to share? Just want to brush up on what Catholics believe and why? Contact ocia@clallamcatholic.org for more info.
Click below for more details and register today!
Screening 'Triumph of the Heart' Sept. 12 @ Deer Park Cinema
EXCLUSIVE SCREENING @ Deer Park Cinema
Sept. 12 at 7:00 pm
In the harrowing confines of Auschwitz’s starvation cell, Catholic priest St. Maximilian Kolbe volunteers to die in place of another prisoner, joining nine others condemned by the Nazis.
As despair and fear grip the group, the pressures of starvation and internal ideological division mount. But throughout, Kolbe’s appeal to their shared humanity and Polish identity forges a brotherhood that culminates in a poignant act of sacrifice that echoes beyond the cell, illuminating hope in one of history’s darkest moments.
Producer and Queen of Angels School alumna Cecilia Stevenson helped make this stunning film a reality. The world premiere took place in Poland on St. Kolbe’s feast day, August 13. Read more about the story behind this film and it’s production in Northwest Catholic magazine, and read a glowing review from NCR here.
To purchase tickets, email Will Stevenson: stevenwo@olypen.com
Unbound Sponsorship
Rev. George Knab, O.M.I.
We recently welcomed Rev. George Knab O.M.I. who celebrated Masses and told us about the work of Unbound, a lay Catholic sponsorship ministry that helps children and elderly in 17 developing countries. To learn more, call (800) 875-6564 or visit Unbound online.
El Próximo fin de semana, esté listo para darle la bienvenida al Rev. George Knab O.M.I. quien estará con nosotros para celebrar la Santa Misa y para hablarnos acerca de la labor de Unbound, organización laica Católica de apadrinamiento que asiste a niños y ancianos en 17 países en vías de desarrollo. Para obtener mayor información, favor de llamar al (800) 875-6564 o visite Unbound en línea.
Click the button below to sign up to sponsor a child, youth, or elder!
Monthly Town Hall Meetings
Hear ye, hear ye! Join us in Forks at Queen of Angels for the next monthly town hall meeting, our parish community Q&A. Ask questions, give feedback, and get answers from our pastor, Fr. Jacob Maurer.
(Listen to previous meetings in the Pastoral Updates section below.)
All parishioners from across our Olympic Catholic parish family are welcome!
QA | Town Hall Mtg. | 6:30 pm, Friday, August 22
Prayers for the Departed
Queen of Angels & St. Joseph Purgatorial Society
Click here to submit names of your loved ones for prayers at First Friday Masses, or to join our parishes’ prayer apostolate, the Purgatorial Society.
Eucharistic Adoration
St. Joseph
- Tuesdays @ 6:00 – 7:00 pm
Queen of Angels
- Fridays after 9:30 am Mass until noon.
St. Anne
- Wednesdays after 12:00 pm Mass.
Annual Catholic Appeal 2025
The Annual Catholic Appeal funds ministries and services across parishes, cities, cultures, and generations. Hospital and healthcare ministry, prison ministry, immigrant and refugee ministry, multi-cultural ministry, seminarian formation, faith formation, youth and young adult ministry, and so much more.
Click here to learn more, or click the button below to secure your pledge today!
Get to Know Our Pastor
Fr. Jacob Maurer
Fr. Maurer invites us to get to know him better! Please visit his website, where he shares his heart and reflects on his thoughts and plans for our new parish family and the ongoing Partners in the Gospel diocesan efforts. Read more about him here: About Fr. Maurer
Olympic Catholic Town Hall Meetings
Fr. Maurer will be hosting a monthly parish family Town Hall Meeting, which will rotate locations between parishes. This is an opportunity for any parishioner from any of our family of parishes to come and ask questions about the Partners in the Gospel process and to give feedback about changes or ask questions and get solid answers.
The audio from these Q&A sessions will be posted on our YouTube channel. The most recent four are below; older sessions archived here.
Town Hall - St. Joseph - Mar. 28, 2025
Highlights from this session:
- General parish family updates
- Parish Family Advisory Council & Parish Family Leadership Team
- Does Father Lappe (pastor of Star of the Sea, Bremerton) still offer Latin Masses?
- Excursis on Latin in the Mass (as opposed to the Extraordinary Form of the Mass)
- Excursis on Traditionis Custodes and the accompanying letter from Pope Francis to bishops
- Banners – particularly the banners Father Randy introduced – in the parish?
- If someone comes up with their arms crossed, will you (Father) bless them?
- Speed of Mass – parts being slow and thus feeling less-than-joyful
- What do the altar candles signify?
- Is there a survey coming about Partners in the Gospel?
- Request for consideration to spread out the Sunday Mass times at Saint Joseph, especially to allow for time for fellowship
- Dreaming of a single parish campus for the central region between Sequim & Port Angeles
- Why do we not spend any money at our own parish (Saint Joseph)?
- Could we have a the Rite for Distributing Holy Communion Outside Mass with a Celebration of the Word when a priest isn’t available for Masses?
- If there were no priest on a Sunday, would we be able to have a Sunday Celebration in the Absence of a Priest?
- Have you considered a new parish directory?
- Questions about crosswalk lights at our parish (Saint Joseph)
Click here to read more on Fr. Maurer’s blog, complete with links to deeper explanations, magisterial documents, and more.
Town Hall - Queen of Angels - Feb. 28, 2025
Highlights from this session:
- Father Ed’s health issues & contingency plans while he is away
- Partners in the Gospel updates from Jason Stolberg, chancery liaison
— Meet our chancery liaisons
— Seattle Archdiocese Partners in the Gospel page - Are all the parishes in the archdiocese in families?
- What news about a Queen of Angels 5 pm vigil Mass choir? Does the choir need to be in the choir loft?
- Why aren’t children invited to come forward for a blessing at communion? More details here.
- Starting new things in general within our communities; groups, social gatherings.
- Are there funds to assist youth & young adults to go to college? For vocations to the priesthood & religious life? For married couples?
- What is going on with the family formation group (at Queen of Angels)?
- Guest priests and retreats
- Coffee hour / social hours after Sunday Mass; balancing the load
- New pictoral directory for our parish or parish family?
- Is the long-term of the archdiocese to have one church on the Olympic Peninsula? Discerning closures, funding bigger buildings, and other future dreams
- Catholic cemeteries on the Olympic Peninsula
Click here to read more on Fr. Maurer’s blog.
Town Hall - St. Anne - Jan. 24, 2025
Highlights from this session:
- Updates on the parish family to date
- Differences between councils and committees
- Clarifications on Saint Anne’s Apostolic Action committee (past history, current disposition, and future plans)
- Are our parishes going to be sanctuaries for those in fear of ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)? What will our involvement be on this issue?
- USCCB statement
- Archbishop Etienne’s letter
- Practicalities of what we might do locally
- Avoiding the spirit of bitterness & anger
- Gratitude for Father Ed’s stability and presence
- Father Gali visiting the west region? (Saint Anne and Saint Thomas)
- ‘Santo Nino’ devotion and celebration of it at St. Mary Star of the Sea this year
- Contingency plans when we’re down one (or more) priests
- More homebound ministers from each church needed
- Faith formation at Saint Thomas the Apostle mission?
- What’s up with Jason (our archdiocesan liaison)?
- Parish Councils
Click here to read more on Fr. Maurer’s blog.
Town Hall - St. Mary Star of the Sea - Nov. 22, 2024
Highlights from this session (bilingual):
- Updates about the parish family
- Changes to the Saturday vigil Mass & confession schedules
- Changes to the monthly priest rotation schedule
- Big celebrations in December
- Updates on the roof work at Saint Mary Star of the Sea
- Could arrangements be made for a kneeler section in front of the sanctuary during communion?
- For confessions at Saint Mary Star of the Sea, could we invite other priests who might speak Spanish more fluently?
- Is my confession valid if the priest doesn’t understand?
- Will you be meeting with parents to talk through the possibility of moving faith formation away from Sundays?
- Could we use Latin to bring our different language-speaking communities together?
- Would it be possible to invite Spanish-speaking priests for much-needed catechetical instruction?
- Why do Catholics not celebrate Halloween?
Click here to read more on Fr. Maurer’s blog, complete with links to deeper explanations, magisterial documents, and more.
Partners in Excellence Fund Drive
Queen of Angels School needs your support! Checks can be made out to Queen of Angels School (marked PIE in the memo), and dropped off at or mailed to any of the parish offices.
Or give online by clicking the yellow button below. (Under Fund, please select “108-Partners in Excellence” from the drop-down menu.) We are blessed to serve our kids and our community; thank you for partnering with us in our mission!
Archdiocese's 175th Anniversary
Established in 1850, the Archdiocese of Seattle turns 175 this year, and Archbishop Etienne, our auxiliary bishops, and many priests and the faithful celebrated four special Masses from January through May 2025. We also marked this milestone with the Season of Service, far surpassing our goal of reaching 175,000 volunteer hours.
- Visit the Archdiocese’s 175th Anniversary page to read more and watch short videos about artifacts from our history, the diocese-wide service project in celebration of this special milestone, and more!
Highlights from the Mass & Celebration
Commemorative 175th Anniversary Book
During the Mass, Catholic school students presented Archbishop Etienne with a Commemorative 175th Anniversary Book and Spiritual Bouquet featuring images of local Catholics serving others. This beautiful tradition of presenting acts of charity, mercy or devotion to honor a special occasion has been captured in a commemorative digital book. VIEW or DOWNLOAD HERE
Your Vote Matters!
Click the link below to access the current WA State Catholic Conference’s Advocacy Bulletin, and keep abreast of current legislative activity in our state. You may also sign up to have the bulletin emailed to you as it is released during legislative sessions throughout the year.
Partners in the Gospel UPDATES
Starting July 1, 2024, the 136 parishes in the Archdiocese of Seattle will become 60 parish families, with eight stand-alone parishes. Over the next three years, each parish family will work to form one new canonical parish. Visit the Archdiocese’s Partners in the Gospel page to learn more.
- Our parish family includes St. Joseph in Sequim; St. Anne in Forks, St. Thomas the Apostle mission in Clallam Bay, St. Mary Star of the Sea in Port Townsend, and Queen of Angels in Port Angeles.
What parishioners can do
- Pray for this effort, and how you can help it succeed.
- Stay engaged:
- Sign up for the Partners in the Gospel UPDATE newsletter (scroll to the bottom of that page to sign up).
- Read Northwest Catholic magazine (registered parishioners receive this subscription for free; you can also read online)
- Read the July 2025 UPDATE! (in English, Spanish, Vietnamese)
Looking for Flocknote?
We’re moving on to new things! Olympic Peninsula Catholic parish family is migrating to CCB and ParishStaq for communications previously handled via Flocknote. Stay tuned for further updates!
FORMED.org - Subscribe Today!
Catholic Media, Online & On DemandFORMED is an online streaming service which offers a huge variety of films,
TV programs, Bible studies, audiobooks and teaching talks, eBooks, and more.
FORMED has a growing collection of content in Spanish, too!
Follow the directions below to sign up for FREE through our parish-sponsored program.
Once you’ve validated your account, you can access the content from a web browser, or from apps available in the iOS store, Android store, and TVOS. Roku and some smart TVs may also have Formed available. (Visit the Support page if you need help setting up Formed on your devices.)
St. Anne Parish
Physical: 511 5th Ave.
Mailing: PO Box 2359
Forks, WA 98331
(360) 374-9184
St. Thomas the Apostle Mission
Physical: 52 Pioneer St.
Clallam Bay, WA
Mailing: PO Box 2359
Forks, WA 98331
(360) 374-9184
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Mass Schedule Changes This Week
Our local Coast Guard station has requested the presence of Fr. Randy Guarino for a "Change in Command" observance. Therefore:
- Queen of Angels | MASS CANCELLED Wed. June 28, 12:00 pm