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

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.