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...
by Steve Patti | Sep 29, 2019 | Pastor's Column
This coming Friday, October 4, we celebrate the feast of our patron saint Francis of Assisi. A group of pilgrims from the parish returned last Friday from Italy, and we had four days in Assisi. Assisi is built on the side of a mountain, as you approach it...
by Steve Patti | Sep 22, 2019 | Pastor's Column
I want to thank once again, Tim Throndson who spoke two weeks ago about our parish finances. And here, I’d like to re-state what I wrote in our annual report which was distributed after all Masses a couple of weeks ago: In our 2018-2019 annual report, you will find...
by Steve Patti | Sep 15, 2019 | Pastor's Column
Our bishop, Luis Rafael Zarama has been promoting a plan to develop what is called a Cristo Rey school somewhere within the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area. Cristo Rey is a model that reaches out to students who fall below a certain income level. This weekend there...
by Steve Patti | Sep 8, 2019 | Pastor's Column
Today (Sunday) a group of pilgrims from our parish leaves for Italy; in our time there we will visit Assisi, Siena, and Venice, and we will also stop at Greccio, where Francis of Assisi famously re-enacted the Nativity story, and also LaVerna, where Francis received...
by Steve Patti | Sep 1, 2019 | Pastor's Column
In last Sunday’s gospel we heard an image of what the kingdom of God looks like; Jesus, in speaking to the crowd, says “And people will come from the east and the west and from the north and the south and will recline at table in the kingdom of God.” (Luke 13:29)....
by Steve Patti | Aug 25, 2019 | Pastor's Column
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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...
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