Free ESL and Computer Classes / Clases gratuitas de ESL y computación
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The Institute of American Language and Culture’s Community ESL (CESL) Program at Fordham University offers ESOL (English to Speakers of Other Languages) and Computer Classes, at no cost, in partnership with St. Francis of Assisi Church.
English Classes
Our English language program offers participants an opportunity to improve their language and communication skills, which are essential to succeed in New York City. The program also provides intercultural and life skills training that propels students to find better job opportunities or continue their post-secondary education. 84% of our participants can see results in their English proficiency after one semester of instruction.
Days and times: Mondays and Thursdays, from 9:30 am to 12: 30 pm.
Classes start: September 11, 2023.
Registration for the Fall Semester
Days and times: August 9, 16, 23, 30, and September 6, from 9:30 am – 12:30 pm.
Address: 139 W 31st St, New York, NY 10001, Room 1B.
More information? Contact:
Nilda Alejandro, (631) 568-9885
Website: https://tinyurl.com/CESLProgram
Email: [email protected]
Computer Classes
The Digital Literacy classes are the perfect opportunity to gain access to and proficiency in the digital world. Students develop skills that allow them to utilize various computer applications, making them more competitive when finding a new job, helping their children with homework, and navigating social media responsibly.
Days and times: Wednesdays, from 9:30 to 11:00 am (basic level); and 11:30 am to 1:00 pm (intermediate level).
Class starts: September 27, 2023.
Registration for the Fall Semester
Days and times: August 9, 16, 23, 30, and September 6, from 9:30 am – 12:30 pm.
Address: 139 W 31st St, New York, NY 10001, Room 1B.
More information? Contact:
Clarisa González, (631) 568-9558
Website: https://tinyurl.com/CESLProgram
Email: [email protected]
SPANISH
El Programa CESL del Institute of American Learning and Culture de Fordham University ofrece clases de ESOL (inglés para hablantes de otros idiomas) y Clases de Computación, sin costo alguno, en colaboración con la Iglesia de San Francisco de Asís.
Clases de Inglés
Nuestro programa de inglés ofrece a los participantes la oportunidad de mejorar sus habilidades lingüísticas y comunicativas, esenciales para tener éxito en la ciudad de Nueva York. Además, el programa proporciona una formación intercultural y de habilidades para la vida que impulsa a nuestros estudiantes a encontrar mejores oportunidades de trabajo o continuar su educación universitaria. El 84% de nuestros participantes pueden ver resultados en su dominio del inglés después de un semestre de instrucción.
Días y horarios: Lunes y jueves, de 9:30 am a 12: 30 pm.
Inicio de clases: 11 de septiembre de 2023.
Inscripciones para el Semestre de Otoño
Días y horarios: 9, 16, 23 y 30 de agosto, y 6 de septiembre, de 9:30 am a 12:30 pm.
Domicilio: 139 W 31st St, New York, NY 10001, Room 1B.
¿Necesitas más información? Contacta a:
Nilda Alejandro, (631) 568-9885
Website: https://tinyurl.com/CESLProgram
Email: [email protected]
Clases de Computación
Las Clases de Computación son la oportunidad perfecta para acceder y dominar el mundo digital. Los estudiantes desarrollan habilidades que les permiten utilizar diversas aplicaciones informáticas que les permiten ser más competitivos a la hora de encontrar un nuevo trabajo, ayudar a sus hijos con los deberes escolares y navegar por las redes sociales de forma responsable.
Días y horarios: Los miércoles, de 9:30 a 11:00 horas (nivel básico); y de 11:30 a 1:00 pm (nivel intermedio).
Inicio de clases: 27 de septiembre de 2023.
Inscripciones para el Semestre de Otoño
Días y horarios: 9, 16, 23 y 30 de agosto, y 6 de septiembre, de 9:30 am a 12:30 pm.
Domicilio: 139 W 31st St, New York, NY 10001, Room 1B.
¿Necesitas más información? Contacta a:
Clarisa González, (631) 568-9558
Website: https://tinyurl.com/CESLProgram
Email: [email protected]
KOREAN
포덤대학교의 미언어문화원에서 주최하는 커뮤니티 ESL 프로그램은 성프란치스코 성당과 협력하여 영어 및 컴퓨터 수업을 무료로 제공합니다.
영어수업 안내
본 영어 프로그램은 참가들에게 뉴욕시에서 살아가는데에 필수적인 언어 및 의사소통 능력을 향상시킬 수 있는 기회를 드립니다. 또한 더 나은 직업을 찾거나 고등 교육을 받을 계획을 하고 계신 분들에게 도움이 되도록 상호 문화 이해 및 생활영어에 관한 내용도 교육에 포함되어있습니다. 참가자의 84%가 한 학기의 교육 이후 괄목할만한 영어 실력향상을 보였습니다.
수업일시: 매주 월요일과 목요일, 오전 9시반부터 오후 12시반까지.
개강일: 2023년 9월 11일
가을학기 수업접수 안내
등록일시: 8월 9, 16, 23, 30일, 9월 6일 (5일간) 오전 9시30분 부터 오후 12시30분 까지
장소: 139 W 31st St, New York, NY 10001, Room 1B.
자세한 안내를 원하시면 이 곳으로 연락하세요:
Nilda Alejandro (닐다 알레한드로), (631) 568-9885
웹주소: https://tinyurl.com/CESLProgram
이메일: [email protected]
컴퓨터 수업
컴퓨터 수업은 디지털 세계에 접근하고 컴퓨터 활용 기술을 숙달할 수 있는데에 도움을 드립니다. 학생들은 다양한 컴퓨터 응용 프로그램을 활용하여 새로운 직업을 찾을 때 경쟁력을 높이고, 자녀의 숙제를 돕거나, 소셜 미디어를 보다 잘 탐색할 수 있는 기술을 배웁니다.
수업일시: 매주 수요일일, 오전 9시반부터 11시 (기초반); 오전 11:30부터 오후 1시 (중급반).
개강일시: 2023년 9월 27일.
가을학기 수업접수 안내
등록일시: 8월 9, 16, 23, 30일, 9월 6일 (5일간) 오전 9시30분 부터 오후 12시30분 까지
장소: 139 W 31st St, New York, NY 10001, Room 1B.
자세한 안내를 원하시면 이 곳으로 연락하세요:
Clarisa González (클라리사 곤잘레스), (631) 568-9558
웹주소: https://tinyurl.com/CESLProgram
이메일: [email protected]
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Proyecto de Asistencia para Solicitates de Asilo / The Asylum Seekers Assistance Project
(en español abajo)
The assistance you need to begin life anew in New York City
The Asylum Seekers Assistance Project (ASAP) was created by the Migrant Center at the Church of St. Francis of Assisi in collaboration with partner organizations to assist newly arrived migrants and asylum seekers in New York City.
If you have arrived in the US within a year, this assistance is for you. If you are ready to self-petition, let us help you.
Please contact us.
For more information and to register for assistance, email us at [email protected] or call us at (212) 736-8500 ext. 305 or 377.
La asistencia que necesita para comenzar una nueva vida en la ciudad de Nueva York!
Proyecto de Asistencia para Solicitates de Asilo (ASAP) fue creado por el Centro de Migrantes en la Iglesia de San Francisco de Asis en colaboraci6n con organizaciones asociadas para ayudar a los migrantes recien llegados y solicitantes de asilo en la ciudad de Nueva York. Si llego a los EE. UU. dentro de un ano, esta asistencia es para usted. Si esta listo para su auto peticion, permitanos ayudarlo.
Por favor contactenos.
Para mas information y registrarse para recibir asistencia envienos un correo electronico a [email protected] o llama nos al (212) 736-8500 ext. 305 or 377.
In Collaboration with:
Church of St. Francis of Assisi
St. Ignatius Loyola, NYC
PAX CHRISTI New York State
Malteser International
ISC New York
PAX CHRISTI Metro New York
Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
On August 15th the Church around the world, both Catholic and Orthodox celebrate Mary’s entrance into eternal life in heaven.
We will celebrate the feast at the 5:30 PM Mass on Monday, August 14th andd at the 7:30 AM, 12:00 PM and 5:30 PM Masses on Tuesday, August 15th.
Mary had said yes to the Father’s call. She enjoyed all of the joys and blessings that came with the mission God gave her and she endured all of the hardships and sadness that it also brought her. When her life’s journey was complete, like all of the saints, she was granted a share in the fullness of her son Jesus’ victory over death.
Mary is the Mother of God. She is also a devoted disciple. She is a prophet and a faithful servant of God. Her prophetic words still echo through history and inspire believers in each generation:
My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,
my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour
for he has looked with favour on his lowly servant.
From this day all generations will call me blessed:
the Almighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his Name.
He has mercy on those who fear him in every generation.
He has shown the strength of his arm,
he has scattered the proud in their conceit.
He has cast down the mighty from their thrones,
and has lifted up the lowly.
He has filled the hungry with good things,
and the rich he has sent away empty.
He has come to the help of his servant Israel
for he has remembered his promise of mercy,
the promise he made to our fathers,
to Abraham and his children for ever.
Fr. John Felice, OFM entered eternal life July 31, 2023
The Mass of Resurrection will be this Saturday, August 5th at 11AM. At the church of St. Francis of Assisi
Fr. John M. Felice, OFM, a Franciscan friar and pioneer in supportive housing for the homeless mentally ill, died on Monday, July 31, 2023 at St. Lawrence Friary in Beacon, New York, from an Alzheimer’s related illness. He was 81 years old. He had been living at the skilled nursing care facility for retired and infirm religious since December 2021. Funeral arrangements, a Mass of Christian Burial, and interment will be announced in the upcoming days.
His six decades as a professed Franciscan friar, 54 of those years as an ordained priest, with the New York-based Province of the Holy Name of Jesus, encompassed a rich and broad range of ministerial assignments that included parish pastor, formation director, social justice activist, advocate for the homeless, and two-term provincial minister of the province.
But of all his ministries, Fr. Felice received national recognition for his trailblazing work and bold vision in community-based support facilities for the homeless in New York City. And it was the ministry he cherished the most, singling out his work with the homeless and mentally ill as his most significant achievement of religious life.
In 1980, he established the first St. Francis Residence in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood – a residential program that provided permanent supportive housing in a dignified and stable environment with on-site medical, psychiatric, wellness and social services to New York City’s homeless struggling with severe mental illness. It was the city’s first of its kind.
Fr. Felice’s vision and ground-breaking work – and the success of the St. Francis Residence – served as a national model for the permanent supportive housing movement of the 1980s. He eagerly assisted government agencies and non-profit housing programs throughout the country and the world in establishing similar programs. Fr. Felice was enlisted by New York city and state agencies and lawmakers to help craft policy and legislation to address the then-burgeoning crisis of homelessness, particularly the mentally ill who had been left to fend for themselves after their discharge from state-run facilities that were shut down in the late 1970s in an effort to deinstitutionalize mental illness.
Two years after opening the first residence on E. 24th St. and Lexington Ave., Fr. Felice and two other friars, Fr. John McVean, OFM, and Fr. Tom Walters, OFM, co-founded a non-profit called St. Francis Friends of the Poor, and established St. Francis Residence II on W. 22nd St. and, in 1987, St. Francis Residence III on Eighth Ave., between 17th and 18th Streets. Today, the three residences, owned and operated by St. Francis Friends of the Poor, provide permanent housing with supportive services to 255 formerly homeless tenants living with mental health issues.
“As one of the ‘founding fathers’ of St. Francis Friends of the Poor, Fr. Felice recognized back then that caring for mentally ill homeless persons would be one of the foremost and vital charitable efforts in the immediate future. He developed many of the programs used by St. Francis Friends of the Poor in its incredible programing structure for successfully caring for mentally ill homeless persons. Two of his hallmark standards and requirements are that each mentally ill homeless person is referred to as a ‘client,’ and that each client must always be treated with dignity. His efforts will be appreciated, admired and respected forever. We, along with all of the clients whose lives he has touched, will miss him,” Patricia Edith Harris, Chief Executive Officer of Bloomberg Philanthropies, and Mark Denis Lebow, Board Chair of St. Francis Friends of the Poor, said in a joint statement.
“Fr. Felice took the simple, direct and pragmatic approach to the homeless and mentally ill on the streets of New York City by offering them housing and help with whatever they needed. The simplicity of this solution, the cost-effectiveness, and the humanity and dignity it extends is a feasible investment for every New York City neighborhood,” said Ellen Baxter, founder of Broadway Housing Communities, an affordable and supportive housing nonprofit serving West Harlem and Washington Heights that was established in 1983, and on which Fr. Felice served as board chair from 2006 to 2016.
In the April 21, 1981 edition of The New York Times, the Community Service Society, a then-private, nonprofit social-welfare agency, called the St. Francis residences an example of what can be done to provide a place for the growing number of homeless people – a place where they might live with a “sense of self-worth and dignity,” instead of wandering the streets. At the time, the New York City Mayor, Edward I. Koch, had issued a plea to the private sector for community-based support facilities to meet the homelessness crisis. Fr. Felice said back then that he was just responding to the mayor’s call with a comprehensive solution to a complex problem – and that supportive services were a critical component to housing the city’s most vulnerable population. It wasn’t enough to just put a roof over their heads without the supportive services, he had said.
Fr. Felice was honored through the years by many organizations, among them The Supportive Housing Network of New York, for his innovative and pioneering efforts as the first to create housing for the homeless in New York City. He always described St. Francis Friends of the Poor as a “mustard seed” of an idea and “labor of love.”
Fr. Felice spent his life as a Franciscan friar never more than 40 miles from his hometown of Patchogue, Long Island, where he was born on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1941 to Michael and Dorothea (Kelly) Felice. After graduating from Seton Hall High School in 1959, he attended St. Bonaventure University in Allegany, New York. But he said the “simplicity, heart and genuine affection for one another” and “work and spirit” of the friars he had met there left such an impression, that it inspired him to transfer to the Franciscan St. Joseph Seminary in Callicoon, New York, after his freshman year.
After a year of studies in Callicoon, he was received into the Order of Friars Minor with Holy Name Province in 1962 at St. Raphael Novitiate in Lafayette, New Jersey, where he professed his first vows the following year. He made his solemn profession of vows in 1966 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1968 at the Franciscan Monastery in Washington, D.C.
He completed his undergraduate education at St. Francis College in Rye Beach, New Hampshire, whose affiliation with St. Bonaventure University resulted in him receiving a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy from SBU. He received a degree of doctor of literature (LittD), a higher level of doctorate that is awarded to individuals who achieve special excellence, from SBU. He also studied theology at Holy Name College in Washington, and earned a bachelor of sacred theology degree from Catholic University of America in D.C.
While he was working toward a graduate degree in sociology at Catholic University, he was summoned in 1969 by Holy Name’s provincial minister to serve in the Province’s vocation office. He later became the youngest friar ever appointed, at age 31, as pastor of the Province’s flagship, the historic St. Francis of Assisi Church on W. 31st St. in New York City – where he led a fraternity of 70 friars and provided pastoral and sacramental care to parishioners. He held the position for three terms, from 1973 to 1982.
It was at the end of his third term as pastor of the Manhattan church that he teamed up with Fr. McVean and Fr. Walters to establish St. Francis Friends of the Poor and open the St. Francis Residences. He served as president of St. Francis Friends of the Poor until 2016, a 36-year run that ended when health issues caused him to step down from day-to-day operations. He maintained a presence at St. Francis Friends of the Poor until 2021, when those same health issues resulted in his move to St. Lawrence Friary in Beacon.
Fr. Felice also held several high-level administrative positions in the Province, including two terms as provincial minister, from 1997 to 2006, and two terms as a councilor on the provincial council, from 1976 to 1982. Under his leadership, Holy Name Province expanded its outreach services and programs to the poor and marginalized. He also started the Province’s pre-novitiate program in the Bronx, New York, where men discerning Franciscan vocation spent one year before professing first vows.
He also launched the Province’s Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation Office, encouraging friars to advocate for social justice issues wherever they were ministering in the Province. He asked SBU and Siena College, based in Loudonville, New York – both institutions founded and sponsored by Holy Name Province – to incorporate social justice into their curriculums.
In an interview on the occasion of his 50th anniversary as a Franciscan friar, Fr. Felice said of his own faith journey, “I have been a very lucky man. Being one of the friars has been the privilege of my life.”
He is survived by his Holy Name Province confreres, a niece and nephew, and the hundreds of men and women who have resided at the St. Francis Residences over its 40-plus years.
Margarita Meet and Greet for 20’s – 30’s
The Church of St. Francis of Assisi is hosting a Margarita Meet and Greet on the roof of the Francis House after the 5 PM Mass on Sunday, August 13th.
If you are in your 20’s and 30’s join us to meet other young adults in our community, members of the staff and members of some of our ministries.
The event is free and open to everyone in their 20’s and 30’s but we are asking people to RSVP so we have an idea of how many people to expect.
So please fill out the form and feel free to bring other young adult friends both to Mass that day and to the meet and greet.
For more information call or email:
Joe Nuzzi
[email protected]
212-736-8500 x365
Old St. Patrick’s Catacombs Tour hosted by Converge @St.Francis
Old St. Patrick’s Catacombs Tour: Saint Francis of Assisi group tour
CONVERGE @St.Francis is hosting a guided tour to the Catacombs of Old St. Patrick’s pro-cathedral in NOLITA. The ministry team invites all members of St. Francis of Assisi and their friends to join. We have negotiated a discounted rate for this tour. Details are below:
Date: Saturday, August 26
Time: 5:00 p.m. (meet there at 4:30 p.m.)
Address: 263 Mulberry Street, New York, 10012
Cost: $30.00 per person (discounted rate; no refunds once purchased)
Please purchase your tour tickets below. Tickets are limited.
We look forward to spending time with you at this interesting tour on August 26!
The Pastor’s Corner – July 30, 2023
Dear Community and Friends of the Church of St. Francis of Assisi,
Peace and All Good!
I love the first reading this weekend. Solomon can ask for anything from God and what does he ask for, an understanding heart, to be able to distinguish right from wrong. To have the gifts he needs to be the best he can be in the service of God. What a great lesson for us to learn for ourselves, for our families, for our worshiping community here at Saint Francis, for our city and for our Church. Give us oh Lord we pray a heart wise and understanding so that we can be the best we can be in Your service. This is my prayer as I come here to serve you as your pastor, for the entire pastoral staff and for all of you parishioners.
I am so happy and honored to be here at St Francis. Please pray for me.
Peace and all Good,
Joseph Juracek, ofm
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