Happy Sunday!

This Sunday we are glad to welcome Fr. Matt Lowry in his role as Episcopal Vicar of the North. Fr. Matt is celebrating the 8:00am Mass to install me as pastor of SFdA. It’s hard for me to believe that it’s already been 5 months that I’ve been back in Flagstaff. I love it here and am incredibly grateful to Bishop Dolan for asking me to serve as pastor here at San Francisco de Asis. Thank you to all of you for welcoming me back so warmly. It has been such an easy transition to come back here and I am thankful for each of you.

Happy Sunday!

I hope everyone is doing well as we prepare for Thanksgiving. I have a number of exciting updates. First, you heard last weekend that Bishop Dolan is assigning us a new parochial vicar, Fr. Carlos Gomez, beginning on Fri, Dec 1. Fr. Gomez was the pastor of St. Augustine in Phoenix for the last 17 years. He is currently finishing his sabbatical and is looking forward to coming here.

Dear members of SFdA community,

First of all, I would like to express my deep gratitude to Fr. Dan Connealy, to the parish staff, and to all of you for your love, care, support, and prayers since I came to this parish for my pastoral year. I am so blessed to be part of this wonderful community. It has been a great experience for me. I am so grateful to God for each one of you.

Happy Sunday!

It’s good to be back from retreat and see everyone. Thank you so much for all of your prayers. In the week and a half before I left for my retreat I had four funerals. I want to offer a special thank you to all of our funeral volunteers. We have so many wonderful people dedicated to serving families in their time of grief. Many people give up weekday mornings to come and lector for a funeral or simply attend. In fact, at one of the funerals, the person who died only had her daughter and son in law present.