When the parish began in 1906, parishioners gathered in a room above a dance hall at 38th and Woodland. The first church building, a small frame structure, was built at 40th and Tracy in 1906, and enlarged in 1907. A year later, ground at 39th and Harrison was...
By Kevin Kelly, Catholic Key Associate Editor UNITE” story appeared in the Catholic Key: 3/11/2011 KANSAS CITY — In cities all over the country, there are streets named “Division,” Deacon Ross Beaudoin told the congregation that filled St. James Parish on March...
Michael Ryan remembers a story he heard as a boy from his grandmother….From Centennial Book My Dad was Joseph B. Ryan, the youngest surviving child of Michael Ethelbert Ryan and Ellen Mary (Noon) Ryan. They lived at 3611 Woodland Ave. One day in 1906, when my dad...
“We do not pray in order to escape the world around us. We pray with one eye on the world so that we can come to understand what is really being asked of us here and now, at times like this, as co-creators of the universe.” Sr. Joan Chittister, OSB Each Sunday,...
Baptism Penance Eucharist Confirmation Anointing of the Sick Matrimony Holy Orders We Worship & Pray The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick gives strength and support and can be administered to anyone struggling with an illness. Who may Receive? In the...
