by Steve Patti | Dec 8, 2019 | Pastor's Column
We arrive once again at the beginning of a new liturgical year, the season of Advent, which began last weekend and continues in the days leading up to Christmas. The season of Advent is a most beautiful time in our year, as the days get shorter, darkness comes...
by Steve Patti | Dec 1, 2019 | Pastor's Column
Welcome back to all who have been traveling for Thanksgiving and as we now enter the beautiful, dark-leading-to-light season of Advent; as we begin to look forward to Christmas with its astounding story of the God of all Creation being born among us, not as royalty or...
by Steve Patti | Nov 24, 2019 | Pastor's Column
You may have heard that my assistant, Tresa Pickup, will be leaving in early December for a new job. Tresa has been in this role for the past four years, and I want to thank her for her work during that time. It’s an interesting job for sure – answering phone...
by Steve Patti | Nov 17, 2019 | Pastor's Column
This upcoming week, Fr. Jim and I will be in St. Petersburg, Florida for a meeting of the guardians and pastors of Holy Name Province. The focus of the meeting will be on what our province calls “Fraternal Ecology” (see the statement on this below). As you may know,...
by Steve Patti | Nov 10, 2019 | Pastor's Column
This weekend we have our annual Fair Trade Market in Clare Fellowship Hall. This is always an amazing time to look around and see beautiful handiworks from around the world, to move away from the massproduced quality of so many things in our culture, and to appreciate...
by Steve Patti | Nov 3, 2019 | Pastor's Column
Last Friday our staff had its annual Staff Service day. Our office was closed; we began at 9:00am with Mass and from there we acted upon the words “go in peace” and went out into the wider community. Afterwards we met back at the church and talked about what we saw...
by Steve Patti | Oct 27, 2019 | Pastor's Column
On Monday evening, our parish is hosting an information meeting about a proposed new Cristo Rey school which is being planned for the Triangle Area. See page 9. Cristo Rey is a school model meant to serve underprivileged high school students and our bishop...
by Steve Patti | Oct 20, 2019 | Pastor's Column
In the past couple of weeks I’ve received two letters from Catholic Parish Outreach, both of them thank you letters: one of them was a thank-you note for the 9,806 pounds of groceries that St. Francis contributed to the “Feed a Family” food drive; the other...
by Steve Patti | Oct 13, 2019 | Pastor's Column
We look back at the Feast of St. Francis, celebrated every year on October 4 and every year we tell again the story of Francis and the way he has, over eight centuries, captured the imagination of people. On Thursday evening October 3 we celebrated the Transitus...
by Steve Patti | Oct 6, 2019 | Pastor's Column
Last weekend we had a gathering of our parish council and our parish staff for two full days of taking a close look at our Franciscan identity, our mission statement, the signs of the current times, and from all of that, a beginning to look at where God might...
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