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Garden Update, June 11, 2025
The black berry vines are loaded. The first yummy berries have ripened. Make the black berry vines a stop during your garden visit. This Saturday from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm we will weeding and putting up trellises. Produce currently ready for harvesting are the...
Staff Transition at St James
To all who visit the St James website, Welcome! Please bear with us during our time of staff changes. Our office phone, 816-561-8512, currently is checked for messages on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, several times each day. Please include your phone number in...
Single women age 18-40 thinking about a Religious Life?
Come, let us Adore - The Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration invite single women, ages 18-40 who are considering religious life, to a Monastic Experience at their monastery at 31970 State Highway P, Clyde, Missouri. Dates are July 18-20, 2025 and October...
Stewardship Appeal
We continue to receive Stewardship Appeal Commitment Cards in the mail and in the offertory basket. A big THANK YOU to everyone who turned in a card so far. It is important that you turn in a card so we can update our parish roster with the information on the card....
New Paintings on Church Walls by Kwanza Humphrey
Parishioner Bob Anderson tells the story of the new paintings on the church walls of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, Servant of God Sister Thea Bowman FSPA, Blessed Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi, and Venerable Augustine Tolton. The Kansas City artist Kwanza Humphrey (pictured...
My Experience with Sr. Thea Bowman, by Joan DeMerchant
In the late 1980’s, I was the Associate Director of the Institute for Pastoral Life (IPL) in Kansas City, an organization founded to serve the Home Mission Dioceses in the U.S. Our mission was to train liaisons (men and women: religious, lay, and ordained) from these...
Marialuna’s 4th Story: Who is a real friend??
The St. James Youth Group activities always include an opportunity for service hours. Examples of service opportunities include Trunk or Treat at the Ronald McDonald House and the Souper Bowl of Caring for Harvesters. This year, due to the pandemic we had to rethink...
Marialuna’s 2nd Story: Dear God, It sure is worth the effort…
The St. James Youth Group activities always include an opportunity for service hours. Examples of service opportunities include Trunk or Treat at the Ronald McDonald House and the Souper Bowl of Caring for Harvesters. This year, due to the pandemic we had to rethink...
Marialuna’s 3rd video: Thank you for sharing with me ….
The St. James Youth Group activities always include an opportunity for service hours. Examples of service opportunities include Trunk or Treat at the Ronald McDonald House and the Souper Bowl of Caring for Harvesters. This year, due to the pandemic we had to rethink...
Jonah’s 2nd Story: Dear God, I hope you’re not taking a day off!
The St. James Youth Group activities always include an opportunity for service hours. Examples of service opportunities include Trunk or Treat at the Ronald McDonald House and the Souper Bowl of Caring for Harvesters. This year, due to the pandemic we had to rethink...
St. James Catholic Church
3909 Harrison (street address)
Kansas City, Missouri 64110
816-561-8512
parishstaff@stjkc.org
PO Box 30388 (mailing address)
Kansas City, MO 64112
Office Hours
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
For confessions, please send an email to one of our priests to make an appointment.
Fr Don Farnan - frdon@stjkc.org
Fr Garry Richmeier C.PP.S. - garry@gmail.com
Thanks to Chris Dewberry for providing photos on the website.