by Steve Patti | Jul 5, 2020 | Pastor's Column
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by Steve Patti | Jun 28, 2020 | Pastor's Column
[et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="4.4.8"][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.4.8"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="4.4.8"][et_pb_text _builder_version="4.4.8"] You will notice this Sunday at our 9:30 livestream Mass that we have members of...
by Steve Patti | Jun 21, 2020 | Pastor's Column
[et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="4.4.8"][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.4.8"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="4.4.8"][et_pb_text _builder_version="4.4.8"] Warm Sunday greetings to all, and I want to give an update on our plans for having mass...
by Steve Patti | Jun 14, 2020 | Pastor's Column
We are now into mid- June, three months into our alternative universe of COVID-19. It has become a kind of normal that was unthinkable back in February. Masks, distancing, limited access to familiar places, no movie theaters, no baseball or Stanley Cup playoffs....
by Steve Patti | Jun 7, 2020 | Pastor's Column
I want to say thank you to all who contributed to our food drive last weekend. We filled two trucks! If we can’t receive the Body of Christ at mass just yet, we can continue to be the Body of Christ, in a time of absence and hope. Last weekend this community did just...
by Steve Patti | May 31, 2020 | Pastor's Column
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by Steve Patti | May 24, 2020 | Pastor's Column
Welcome once again to our virtual Sunday, and this Sunday we celebrate the Ascension which in this diocese takes the place of the Seventh Sunday of Easter. And our strange quiet days continue. Even amid the quiet, there is much going on here at St. Francis: phone...
by Steve Patti | May 17, 2020 | Pastor's Column
By now you have probably heard the news that a new pastor has been named for St. Francis, and he is Msgr. Michael Clay. He will begin here as pastor on September 1, 2020. He will also have an associate who will be named at a later date. Msgr. Clay is currently...
by Steve Patti | May 10, 2020 | Pastor's Column
We continue in these strange and new and unknown days, watching and waiting for any kind of news about this virus and whether things are improving, or not. We have not known anything like this in our lifetimes. We look for ways to adapt, hopeful that in time we...
by Steve Patti | May 3, 2020 | Pastor's Column
We are now nearly two months into this time of social distancing, and I remember the first weekend we began to live-stream and the speculation was that it might last only a few weeks. And here we are, into May now, getting used to this strange new reality and learning...
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