by Steve Patti | Jan 10, 2016 | Advocacy, Events
As I write this on the day before New Year’s Eve, I am very much taken by a photograph I saw in a newspaper yesterday. In the photo, a woman holds a 5-month-old child in front of her. The woman smiles widely. A crowd of people is gathered. The caption tells us that...
by Steve Patti | Dec 25, 2015 | Advocacy, Evangelization, Events, Franciscan, Franciscan Friars, St. Francis
A warm welcome to all as we celebrate Christmas! A great gift our parish received this past year is the donation of the Giotto frescoes which you see on the walls in the gathering space and down the hallway that leads to the Founders Room. These are replicas of the...
by Steve Patti | Dec 13, 2015 | Events, Franciscan, Franciscan Friars, Stewardship
This week we say farewell to a long-time member of our staff, Sue Mathys, who has served as our Coordinator of Stewardship over the past several years. Sue and her husband are moving to Phoenix, Arizona after the new year. I first met Sue in March of 2011 on a St....
by Steve Patti | Dec 6, 2015 | Events
Over the past few weeks, in light of terror attacks around the world, two voices emerge as signs of light in what sometimes seems to be a darker and darker world. One is Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, whose most recent book is called Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious...
by Steve Patti | Oct 25, 2015 | Events, St. Francis Preschool
One of my favorite things to do is to look through local bookstores and see what’s there. A few weeks back I found a book called “The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light.” The author is Paul Bogard. In his book, he writes about...
by Steve Patti | Oct 11, 2015 | Community Life, Evangelization, Events, Family Formation, St. Francis
Many thanks to all who helped to make our FrancisFest celebration last weekend a big success. Even with the clouds and rain, the “Rain Plan” for FrancisFest worked perfectly. After the 11:30 mass, I walked around and found all kinds of things going on: I had a platter...
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