Dear Community and Friends of the Church of St. Francis of Assisi,

May the Lord give you peace.

Thank you for your participation in the Pentecost celebrations last weekend. The Masses were lively, and grace filled. I was delighted with the many children who joined us for masses over the weekend. It is good to hear the little voices during the Mass.

I ask your prayers for the friars this week. We will gather in Chapter as Holy Name Province for the last time. In October we will become a new province, Our Lady of Guadalupe, along with our brothers from five other provinces across the United States. Our gathering will be a time of remembering and celebrating the history of Holy Name Province and the many friars who have gone before us. We also give thanks for the young men who are beginning their journey with us as friars. The Church of St. Francis of Assisi has been central to the life of our Province. Many of us professed our Solemn Vows here. This has been the Provincial Headquarters for many years.

Fr. Dennis, Fr. Michael, and Fr. Frank will stay home to be sure that we are able to continue Mass and Confessions with you. We will not be available for confessions this week (Monday -Friday) at 8:00 AM.

Please be assured of the prayers of the friars for you as we gather. You are a great gift to us, and you have formed and shaped us over the years. I thank you for welcoming friars into your lives over the many years. A former Minister Provincial once noted that we are at our best when we are with people. You show us the love and grace of God.

Blessings and Peace, Fr. Tom, ofm

St. Francis of Assisi began live-streaming our daily and Sunday Masses immediately after the pandemic lock-down in March 2020. This new service allowed our parishioners and visitors to remain connected to the Word of God and the celebration of the Eucharist as best we could in those difficult days. Live-streaming continues to serve people who are homebound, people who live far who want to stay connected to St. Francis of Assisi, and people who like to watch daily Mass from their offices during the week.

We are committed to continue to provide this service to everyone.

We will continue to stream all of our Masses and special events to our website at:

and at our

You can also see an archive of our past Masses at the same YouTube page.

However, staring June 1, 2023 we will no longer stream our Masses to our Facebook page.

We are doing this in an effort to reclaim our Facebook page for posts related to live, faith, spirituality and parish events.  We hope that this will reduce clutter on our page so that our posts are easier to find and see in your feeds.

We are also doing this because livestream has less technical glitches when streamed directly to our website or YouTube.

Don’t worry. We are not going away.  You are invited to watch Mass online as often as you like in these two locations.