by Steve Patti | Aug 18, 2019 | Pastor's Column
On Friday, we bade farewell to Br. Jason Damon, who spent the summer with us here as an intern, and who, in a short period of time, became very involved in the life of the parish. Jason had never seen this parish until his arrival and had asked his formation directors...
by Steve Patti | Aug 11, 2019 | Pastor's Column
The week before last we friars were in Denver for a gathering of friars from the six U.S. provinces which are in the process of merging into one province. It was a kind of “get to know you” gathering, as the six provinces look 3-4 years down the road to eventually...
by Steve Patti | Aug 4, 2019 | Pastor's Column
August is here, summer vacation is flying along and it’s later this week that our teachers return to the classroom and the following week, Thursday, August 15, that our students arrive back in class. It always goes fast. We have two schools here at St. Francis,...
by Steve Patti | Jul 28, 2019 | Pastor's Column
This coming week three of us friars will be in Denver, Colorado for a week-long gathering of friars from around the country called a “chapter of mats,” after a term used by the early Franciscans. Some background: there are seven provinces of Franciscan “O.F.M.” friars...
by Steve Patti | Jul 21, 2019 | Pastor's Column
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by Steve Patti | Jul 14, 2019 | Pastor's Column
Our parish received a grant from the Lily Foundation to study the biblical notion of “calling” – on what it means to be called and how that plays out in our everyday lives. The grant is for five years, and is in collaboration with an initiative called “Communities of...
by Steve Patti | Jul 7, 2019 | Pastor's Column
Last week our Director of Stewardship, Deb Royals-Mizerk, a member of our pastoral council, Shauna Morin, and I traveled to Collegeville, Minnesota for a three-day gathering of 14 different faith communities, as part of an initiative called “Communities of...
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...
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