Dear friends, 

 

On July 1st 2024, Pastorate of St. Patrick and St. Joan of Arc goes into effect. I would like to remind all that the Pastorate is not a merger nor a suppression of any of the two parishes but rather an opportunity for the two parishes to work together and share common interest, vision and resources where necessary. Some of these resources will include the Clergy and Staff. I ask for your prayers and blessings as we go through this moment of transition. I continue to ask you to pray for Fr. Franz and me as we lead these two communities.  We thank so much Fr. Willie for the many years of priestly ministry throughout the archdiocese and especially his last 12 years of ministry at St. Joan of Arc. We continue to pray for him as we goes into a well-deserved retirement.

 

Friends, over the past several months, we have been working on forming this pastorate will the help of many of you. The staff, pastoral councils, pastorate formation teams, the Emmaus team from the archdiocese and all have been so gracious in the process. These two parishes have linked DNA from their founding and Evangelizing charisms. 

 

While with the pastorate both Fr. Franz and I will be sharing our time with both St. Patrick and St. Joan of Arc, we hope to give both communities the same level of attention. We will have the best interest of each parish as both parishes will be in our prayers.

 

I continue to ask you to welcome Fr. Franz our Associate Pastor to our Pastorate and all the appointed Clergy to the Pastorate. We will have an official welcome for him and all the assigned clergy at St. Patrick on July 14th after the 12noon Mass and at St. Joan of Arc on July 20th after the 5pm Mass. Please come join us for a moment of fellowship and a meet and greet to welcome our clergy in our midst. I am sincerely, very excited to have brother priest here with me. 

 

May God Bless you all. 

 

Fr. Francis