There is a free performance of highlights of Puccini’s opera Tosca at the Church of St. Francis of Assisi on Sunday, May 28th at 2:30 PM.
It is free an open to the public. A free will offering will be taken up to offset the costs of production. See the flyer below for details.
All are Welcome!
The Feast of the Ascension is Thursday May 18, 2023. We will celebrate the Feast at the Vigil Mass on Wednesday, May 17th at 5:30 PM
and Masses on Thursday are at 7:30 AM, 12:00 PM and 5:30 PM.
Join us at the 23rd annual fundraising Bazaar hosted by the St. Francis of Assisi church, Korean community!
Date: May 21, 2023
Time: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: Broadway between 31st and 32nd street
Come and experience the joy of giving back to the underprivileged communities while indulging in delicious Korean food, exciting cultural activities, and amazing performances!
As part of our fundraising efforts, we will be graciously accepting donations and provide numbered tickets in return ($15 for 6), which will be used later in the day to announce surprise donor appreciation gifts.
Funds rasised/donated will be used to support Catholic charity and evangelization.
Don’t hesitate to mark your calendar and invite your friends and family to join us for a day of fun and generosity! Remember, “In your choirs, bless God” (Psalms 68:27).
The Church of St. Ignatius Loyola is hosting a talk entitled “Women in the Church” as part of the launch of Dr. Phyllis Zagano’s book, Just Church: Catholic Social Teaching, Synodality and Women
Dr. Phyllis Zagano will be speaking
Tuesday May 16, 2023
7 PM in Wallace Hall
at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola
980 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10028
Phyllis Zagano is an internationally acclaimed Catholic scholar and lecturer on contemporary spirituality and women’s issues in the church. Pope Francis appointed her to the Papal Commission for the Study of Women in the Diaconate, which convened in Rome November 2016. Her new book Just Church reviews Catholic social teaching and modern synods in relation to current and prospective ministry by women. With an eye to the intersection of synodality and women’s concerns, Dr. Zagano argues for an increased presence of women in the apostolic, liturgical, and governance sectors of the Church, and in this vein the ordination of women to the diaconate.
Join us to pray for our friars celebrating their Golden and Silver Jubilees of Profession.
Tuesday, May 16th
5:30 PM Mass
David I. Convertino, OFM
Richard C. Flaherty, OFM
Ronald Gliatta, OFM
Roberto O. Gonzalez, OFM
Daniel Grigassy, OFM
Thomas J. Kornacki, OFM
Richard P. McFeely, OFM
Daniel F. Murray, OFM
Daniel C. Nelson, OFM
John W. Rudy, OFM
David W. Schlatter, OFM
Michael D. Calabria, OFM
Octavio A. Duran, OFM
C. Raymond Selker, OFM
The traditional “Thirteen Tuesdays” before the Feast of St. Anthony begin on Tuesday, March 21st.
Devotions to St. Anthony are prayed after our daily Masses at 7:30 AM, 12:00 PM and 5:30 PM.
Please join us!
Click here for a PDF of the Novena book we use at St. Francis for the 13 Tuesdays.
The Feast of St. Anthony will be celebrated on Tuesday, June 13, 2023.
Our Converge @St.Francis Ministry is hosting a 3 week book club to discuss C.S. Lewis classic The Great Divorce.
The meetings are open to all parishioners and friends, but pre-registration is required.
Book Club Meetings:
May 8, May 15 and May 22, 2023
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Francis Room (lower level of the St. Francis House)
About The Great Divorce:
C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christian allegorical tale about a bus ride from hell to heaven. An extraordinary meditation upon good and evil, grace and judgment, Lewis’s revolutionary idea in the The Great Divorce is that the gates of Hell are locked from the inside. Using his extraordinary descriptive powers, Lewis’ The Great Divorce will change the way we think about good and evil.
The book can be purchased in many bookstores and online here: The Great Divorce: Lewis, C. S.: 9780060652951: Amazon.com: Books
Members of the Converge ministry will guide the discussion each week. We ask that you read the book prior to the discussions.
Pre-Registration is due by May 7, 2023
Participants are welcome to bring snacks / refreshments.
MUSICAL MYSTAGOGY: EXPLORING THE MUSIC OF EASTER
Break open the beautiful rites and music of Holy Week and the Easter season in this course. The course will explore how music accompanies the actions, and how the stories of our faith are told through the music that is sung celebrating the passion, death and resurrection of the Lord.
Participants will examine the breadth of the sacred treasury of music: classical, contemporary, and ancient works.
Instructor: William Mulligan, M.Mus.
Sundays, April 16 – May 14, 2023
3:00 – 4:00 PM;
Classroom 1B
Fee: $50.00
Lenten Pardon and Peace: Encounter God’s Mercy
Thursday, March 30th
at 6:30 PM
in the Upper Church
Join us for our annual Lenten Pardon and Peace communal celebration of reconciliation.
Let us encounter God’s gift of mercy and reconciliation together and prepare our hearts to encounter Christ anew in the Resurrection.
Come encounter God through the Word this Lent.
Join us as we break bread, drink soup, and open the Sunday Lenten Gospels
• ALL ARE WELCOME •
February 27
March 6
March 13
March 20
March 27
• TIME •
6:30pm
• LOCATION •
The Francis Room
The Soup is on! Join us for one, two, three or all five reflections.
This is a free event but since soup is being served, please let us know that you are coming….
ALL ARE WELCOME!
