by Msgr. Michael Clay | Sep 13, 2020 | Pastor's Column
We started public daily Masses last Thursday and approximately 60 people came to worship. Public weekday Masses will be celebrated each Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday at 10:00am in the church beginning Monday, September 21. Normal protocols for Masses at St....
by Msgr. Michael Clay | Sep 6, 2020 | Pastor's Column
Thanks for the many expressions of welcome I have received since it was announced in May that I would be serving your parish as its new pastor. I am slowly getting acclimated back to the world of the parish after an eight-year hiatus as a professor at The Catholic...
by Steve Patti | Aug 30, 2020 | Pastor's Column
This weekend is the last weekend for the friars here at St. Francis, and who would have thought in early March that we would not have a full church back for this long? We thought the virus would postpone things a few weeks, and it’s been nearly six months....
by Steve Patti | Aug 23, 2020 | Pastor's Column
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by Steve Patti | Aug 16, 2020 | Pastor's Column
So many things going on as we draw close to transition! Our school begins this week, with classes arriving in stages on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Our preschool begins next Monday the 24th. Much work and preparation has gone into opening both of our...
by Steve Patti | Aug 9, 2020 | Pastor's Column
These are days of all kinds of transitions as the friars begin to pack things up and get ready to move, and as we prepare the way for our new pastor Msgr. Michael Clay and his new associate Fr. Jairo Maldonado. There are boxes everywhere around the...
by Steve Patti | Aug 2, 2020 | Pastor's Column
We are into August now, and I want to update you on our plans for the month and beyond. As you’ve seen, the past two weekends we have had 20 first communion children, along with their parents, at each mass. We have found that these have gone well and I want...
by Steve Patti | Jul 26, 2020 | Pastor's Column
Last Sunday we had 20 children make their first communion here, and it was fantastic to see them and their parents, even under the strange and different circumstances we’ve known over these past several months. The behind-the-scenes planning for the day was...
by Steve Patti | Jul 19, 2020 | Pastor's Column
As I write this on Tuesday evening July 14th, I hope that as you read these words we will have 20 children making their first communion in church this Sunday. With the way things are going, we never know. But we have a very good plan in place for inviting these...
by Steve Patti | Jul 12, 2020 | Pastor's Column
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