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 | Oct 9, 2016 | Pastor's Column
Last weekend was a busy one here as we celebrated our patron saint Francis, whose feast day is October 4. On Saturday morning we had our annual blessing of the animals, and we had a good turnout of dogs, some frightened cats, a turtle, and one young girl presented a...
by Steve Patti | Oct 2, 2016 | Pastor's Column
Over the past few weeks, I have been breaking down our parish mission statement into sections, and this week we continue with “offering hope to those who hunger for human dignity.” What does it mean to offer hope? To offer hope does not simply mean to say that in some...
by Steve Patti | Sep 25, 2016 | Pastor's Column
In the past two weeks, I have written about our mission statement by breaking it down into sections and this week I continue with the third section of the statement, which reads “by growing in holiness through our experience of Christ in word, sacrament, and one...
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