by Steve Patti | Jun 30, 2019 | Pastor's Column
Last Saturday at Immaculate Conception in Durham one of our friars, Casey Cole, was ordained to the priesthood by our Bishop Luis Rafael Zarama. You may remember that Casey was here last year promoting his book “Called.” He will be assigned to ministry at the...
by Steve Patti | Jun 23, 2019 | Pastor's Column
A quick update on our new pastoral council here at St. Francis. Our new group had an orientation meeting in early June and we will meet again later in the summer to learn and talk more about the role of a pastoral council and how we see our work here. What I am...
by Steve Patti | Jun 16, 2019 | Pastor's Column
I arrived back in Raleigh on June 2, after a week-long Habitat for Humanity trip to El Salvador. It was my first Habitat trip and felt Franciscan in the sense of the call that St. Francis of Assisi heard to “rebuild my house, which as you see is falling into...
by Steve Patti | Jun 9, 2019 | Pastor's Column
As we celebrate Pentecost today with its gift of the Holy Spirit, we reflect on the reading today from Paul’s letter to an early Christian community at Corinth – “Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same...
by Steve Patti | Jun 2, 2019 | Pastor's Column
This Sunday, I will be on my way back to Raleigh from El Salvador, where a group from our parish has been working on a Habitat project over the past week. In the meantime, we have some good news to report. We friars will be hosting a friar intern this summer....
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