Because of unknown scammers making illegitimate use of our email addresses, we no longer publish them on this website. They are available on the cover of our Parish Sunday Bulletin or by calling our office at 509-7474-5810.. 

You may also contact any of our parish staff membersby using this email address and placing the staff person's name in the "subject line": office@shparishspokane.org

Father Kevin A. Codd has served the Sacred Heart Parish family as its pastor since his appointment by Bishop Daly in June, 2015.

Father Kevin is a native of Spokane and was born in Sacred Heart Hospital just a few blocks from our church. He and his family (he grew up with ten siblings!) attended St. Charles Parish on the north side of the city. He attended Gonzaga Prep and then Gonzaga University as a seminarian at Bishop White Seminary on the GU campus. He did his theological studies at The American College at the Catholic University of Leuven (Louvain), Belgium, and was ordained a priest in the Cathedral of Spokane in 1979. 

He has served in many parishes over the years since his ordination and spent many of those years in bicultural and bilingual parishes, improving his Spanish language skills to the level of very fluent. In 1999, he returned to Belgium to serve first as Vice Rector, then as Rector-President of his former seminary, The American College in Leuven.  While serving in this position, he completed his doctoral studies at the Catholic University of Leuven after writing his dissertation on the history of the Belgian missionary priests who did much to develop the Church in the Pacific Northwest in the 19th century. 

While in Europe, he walked 500 miles of the famous pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela; his book relating his adventures along the Way, To The Field of Stars A Pilgrim's Journey to Santiago de Compostela, was published in 2008 and has continued to sell well as many other pilgrims and pilgrims-to-be have found it a rich spiritual resource for their own journeys. 

He has completed a second book about his further pilgrim adventures as he walked another 1000 miles through Belgium and France, whiich was published in spring, 2018, Beyond Even the Stars.: A Compostela Pilgrim in France.  It is available in the church vestibule or from either Amazon or the publisher, Wipf and Stock.  


A selection of Father Kevin's homilies can be found on the HOMILIES page of this site.

His Lenten Reflections can also be found on this page: REFLECTIONS

Deacon Brian Ernst together with his partner in ministry and wife, Julie, have been serving our parish community since Brian's ordination on August 10, 2012.  Brian and Julie were married at Sacred Heart Parish.  They have five children (Shawna, Casie, Jacqueline, Jacob, Joshua) and four grandchildren (Noah, Estelle, Cameron, Hudson). 
 
Julie is a medical technologist for PAML where she has worked for over twenty years.  Brian has been an attorney for over thirty years; presently in the field of workers compensation. 
 
Julie has been the chair of the Pastoral Council since September 2015.  As deacon, Brian serves at the altar for weekend Mass; helps with baptisms and funerals.  Brian is the 6:30 a.m. daily Mass deacon at the Cathedral and volunteers at the House of Charity. 
 
Brian and Julie deeply love our Sacred Heart Parish family.