Since this Holy Day falls on a Monday, the obligation is dispensed. Believing that celebrating the Eucharist on two consecutive days is not much of a hardship for many Catholics, we will have a Mass at 8:30am & 5:00pm & 7:30pm (Vietnamese) in the Gathering Hall.
Our annual Mass of Remembrance will be celebrated at 7pm. This is in addition to our regularly scheduled daily Mass at 8:30am.) You may bring your All Souls Day envelope to Mass then or on Sunday.
On Sunday, October 31, at the 9am Mass, we will have the Celebration of the Rite of Acceptance into the Order of Catechumens. This will be our first time to meet some of the people with whom we will journey on the road toward the Easter Sacraments
This Sunday, there will be a second collection to reduce our $1.8 million-dollar parish debt. The sooner we pay off this debt, the more funds we will have available to support other vital services in our growing parish. Over the last 12 months, we were able to reduce our debt by $100,000 through your generosity in this monthly collection.
The goal of the Francis Fund is to offer tangible assistance to those in need on a person to person basis and to offer spiritual services. People, who have nowhere else to turn, come to our doors seeking assistance with utility bills, overnight shelter, food and other needs.
Thank you to everyone for your support of the mission and ministries of our parish. During the month of September, our average weekly collection was $19,023 (6% increase vs. August 2021).
Pope Francis issued a recent appeal urging people to get inoculated against COVID-19 saying the vaccines could bring an end to the pandemic if we work together.
The Upstanders is honest and uplifting, causing us all to examine our behavior, inspiring us to do better, be better, and stand up against victimization and cyber-bullying.
I am so glad that you have both the opportunity to receive and the time to review our 2020 - 2021 St. Francis of Assisi - Annual Report that includes our annual financial report. You may find the report in the FROM THE PASTOR section on our homepage
The Social Justice Team is urgently looking for volunteers to help with this year’s holiday projects. We could really use your help with preparing for our outreach initiatives like the Thanksgiving Outreach for the Poor and the Christmas Giving Trees.
Fr. Matthew D. Stanley is the third pastor at St. Francis of Assisi Roman Catholic Parish in the Evergreen Community in the Diocese of San José (appointed July 1, 2018). He was also the pastor at Holy Family Parish (San José) and St. Thomas Aquinas Parish (Palo Alto). He has been a priest for over thirty-one ye
Bishop Cantú asks everyone to read and share this opinion essay: A recent CA bill on its way to Gov. Newsom is a “slander” against California’s founding saint, and it pushes a “false narrative” about the missions.
St. Francis of Assisi Parish extends an invitation to all who wish to become members of the Catholic faith. If you know someone who is seven years or older and not yet baptized, we have a process called the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA).
There’s an adage that says you should work from your rest, not rest from your work. Like most adages, this is easy to say but hard to do. God commands us to keep holy the Lord’s day because he knows how easily humanity can slip into the undue self-reliance of constantly working. Sunday is not the culmination of the week, but the starting point.
Do you feel alone? Are you frustrated or angry at each other? Do you argue? Have you just stopped talking to each other? Does talking about it only make it worse?
On behalf of Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County, we want to thank your parishioners for their incredible support. Our final accounting for donations during 2020 by the members of St. Francis of Assisi Parish was $95,782. We are truly grateful to have this faithful level of support.