Parish History Archbishop Thomas A. Connolly dedicating the cornerstone of the Church in 1961. Father Cornelius M. Power, Pastor, on far right.
Our Lady of the Lake is not simply a church, but a parish church. When the Catholic population of a district reaches such proportions that it is deemed necessary or worthwhile that a special priest be assigned, the Bishop of the Diocese appoints a pastor, who will care for the spiritual needs of the people, and authorizes him to construct a church. The parish is a normal point of contact between Christ and His faithful. The parish with its pastor, its altar and its baptistery, its pulpit and its confessionals, its schools and its programs, its sinners and its saints, is the whole Church in miniature. The parish does for a limited group what the Church does for the world. Christ is worshipped in the parish liturgy; Christ is preached in the parish pulpit; Christ is praised by the parish choir; Christ is taught in the parish schools; Christ is imitated in the lives of unknown parish saints. For 75 years, Our Lady of the Lake has been a community of faith-filled people who have kept Christ as their foundation. The parish of Our Lady of the Lake, like most parishes, had a humble beginning. In fact, its first church was a converted log cabin at 35th Avenue Northeast and East 85th Street. That cabin sat on a forty-acre site that was planned as a new campus of Seattle University, a dream that died in the depression of the 1930's. 
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