by Steve Patti | Mar 20, 2016 | Bishop's Annual Appeal, Catholic Parish Outreach, Easter, Lent, Palm Sunday
As we enter Holy Week, we encourage you to check the Holy Week schedule, beginning with Holy Thursday and continuing through Easter Sunday. These are days of great power, as we follow Jesus from the evening of his Last Supper, through his trial and way of the cross,...
by Steve Patti | Mar 13, 2016 | Bishop's Annual Appeal, Lent
As we move through this season of Lent, these forty days recall the forty days that Jesus spent in the desert at the beginning of his public ministry. As important as it is to read the gospels to learn about what Jesus said and did, it’s also important to pay...
by Steve Patti | Mar 1, 2015 | Education, Evangelization, Franciscan, Franciscan School, Lent, St. Francis, Tradition
A few weeks back I received an invitation from the seventh grade class to accompany them on a field trip to Greensboro, to visit the International Civil Rights Center, and also a mosque. Well who doesn’t like to go on a field trip? We all piled into a bus on Monday...
by Steve Patti | Feb 22, 2015 | Bishop's Annual Appeal, Evangelization, Lent, Pastoral, Stewardship
Well it seems like we just took down the Christmas tree in the church and now, of course, we are in the season of Lent. The gospel story for this weekend takes us into the desert with Jesus. He is alone there for forty days. The forty days echo the forty years that...
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