Saint Francis of Assisi Parish

Volunteer Appreciation Potluck Gathering

Jyl Dittbenner — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:22:53 +0000

Come join us, Sunday June 10, 2012 from 2:00-4:00pm. Calling all volunteers. Please come join us for an appreciation gathering at St. Francis. Please RSVP by calling the parish office or leaving a message for Debbie Bois., 424-3456, Sunflower3726@comcast.net.

Perhaps you teach Religious Education, help with the Penny Sale, crochet or knit prayer shawls, or are a member of Knights of Columbus? Do you volunteer at Bingo, serve as a Eucharistic Minister or Lector, take care of a garden on the parish grounds? Do you help at our school, organize a ministry, or serve on a committee? Do you sing in the choir, are you a member of the Ladies Guild, or do you help with Sacramental preparation? All these and more volunteers are welcome. We want to celebrate your service. Come and join us on June 10th in the Gathering Space. Please bring an item to share – main dish, salad, dessert, dinner, drinks, etc. All are welcome.

Special Mass with the Bishop

Jyl Dittbenner — Wed, 09 May 2012 11:22:59 +0000

Monday May 30, members of our parish staff, finance council, and parish council participated in a special Mass with Bishop Libasci, and other parish staff from around our diocese. The Mass was held at St. Elizabeth Seton Parish. Bishop Libasci celebrated a number of these Masses in different areas of the state in an effort to unify everyone in our diocese with a common thread. After each Mass, Parish priests received a special Eucharist to be used in Adoration at his own parish.
Following the Mass participants were given the opportunity to meet Bishop Libasci during a reception in the hall. There was a sense of mission and community among the crowd. People were able to meet and greet – many seeing for the first time how large our diocese is – and the vast array of people who serve within it. Friendships were rekindled, networks strengthened, and new relationships sprouted.

We pray for the new beginnings that our Bishop has ignited, and seek to support him as our shepherd.

On A Mission…

Jyl Dittbenner — Tue, 01 May 2012 17:45:17 +0000

Last week Jyl Dittbenner spent 10 Days on a Mission in Honduras. Jyl helped with a program called “Project Eden.” Organized by Father Dan St. Laurent, it is a program that involves raising produce and plants for sale, building gardens, and tutoring. The gardens are built for community benefit – at schools, or in villages. During the trip their was opportunity to share music, talk with local people, harvesting, building gardens, tutoring, and just getting to know the local culture.

Enjoy the slideshow below… Welcome back Jyl, glad to see you are home safe!

May Men’s Breakfast

Dennis Fontaine — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:04:45 +0000

The next breakfast is on Saturday, May 5th at 7:00am. Our guest speaker is Doug Rogers. The food is served hot at 7:00am and we are usually done around 8:30. Please join us for a morning of food, faith and fellowship.

BISHOP LIBASCI’S SCHEDULE FOR LENT 2012

Jyl Dittbenner — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 01:45:27 +0000

(MANCHESTER) As he enters his first Lenten season as Bishop of Manchester, Bishop Peter A. Libasci has announced he will lead the annual Lenten Mission at St. Joseph Cathedral each Wednesday throughout Lent, and will visit parishes across New Hampshire to walk the Stations of the Cross.

On Wednesdays during Lent, Bishop Libasci will hold Evening Prayer at St. Joseph Cathedral in Manchester at 7:00 p.m. Lenten Missions typically involve a priest or bishop preaching on a particular theme over a series of days. Bishop Libasci will speak on the Catholic Profession of Faith, the creed said at every Mass that expresses the core beliefs of Roman Catholics. All are welcome to attend this Lenten Mission Series on the following dates: February 29, March 7, March 14, March 21, and March 28.

Recordings of the bishop’s reflections will be available the following Friday at www.CatholicNH.org/Bishop.

Bishop Libasci will also be traveling the state during Lent to join parishioners in walking the Stations of the Cross. All are invited.

Friday March 2: St. Patrick Parish, Milford, 7:00 p.m.

Friday March 9: St. Kathryn Parish, Hudson, 7:30 p.m.

Friday March 16: Christ the King Parish, Concord: 3:00 p.m. at St. Peter’s Church; 5:30 p.m. at Sacred Heart Church; and 7:00 p.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church.

Wednesday March 21: Saints Mary and Joseph Parish, Salem, Noon.

Friday March 23: Parish of the Assumption, Dover, 6:30 p.m.

Friday March 30: Corpus Christi Parish, Portsmouth: St. Catherine Church at 5:00 p.m. in Spanish and at 7:30 p.m. in English.

To learn more about the Stations of the Cross, visit www.CatholicNH.org/Stations.

2012 Penny Sale A Success!

Jyl Dittbenner — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:21:49 +0000

The 2012 Penny Sale was a huge success. All the numbers are not in yet – but we’ve given out 75% of the gifts, and almost all of the special prizes have been claimed. We want to thank everyone who helped make us a success including all who donated gifts, the many friends of St. Francis, the Ministries who banded together to give larger prizes, Father Ray for making sure the large sign was posted in front of Sacred Heart, the Penny Sale Committee who worked to collect all the prizes, prepare them, set up the whole thing, and the tedious task of cleaning up, Sacred Heart Parish for allowing us to use their hall, the Parishioners of Sacred Heart for their patience with the parking and inconvenience of having so many people crowding their space, and anyone I may be forgetting right now.

Thank you to the Following Businesses…

626 Hair

777 X-Press

American Kenpo Academy

Auto Re-Nu It

Avandi’s Family Restaurant

Barnes and Noble

Belmont Hall & Restaurant

Bert’s Better Beers

Bob’s Discount Furniture

Bonneville & Son

Brother’s Restaurant

Budget Cuts

Bugaboo Creek

CA Hoitt Furniture

Cathedral Church Good’s

NH Cabling LLC

CJ’s Great West Grill

Claire’s Cuddlers

Coca Cola Bottling Production Center

Comfort Inn

Common Man

Cross Insurance

Curves

Dana Center

Dead River Company

DeMoulas Super Markets

Derry Restaurant and Pizza

Derryfield Restaurant

Dunkin Donuts

Durning, Bykowski & Young

EmbroidMe

Executive Health Club

Fallon’s Furniture and La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries

Florence’s Restaurant

Four Seasons Motor Inn

French Firewood

Gauchos

Giovanni’s

Goldenrod Restaurant

Goodale’s Bike Shop

Great American Subs

Hair Update

Hairpocalypse

Haley’s Pizza

Hannaford Food & Drug

Harold Square

Haley’s Pizza

Hobby Lobby

Hoertdoerfer Dentistry

Holiday Inn

Honeydew Donut

Hooksett Fireworks

Ignite

IHOP Restaurant

Jacques Flower Shop

Janie’s Uncommon Café

Jerome’s Delicatessen

John & Son’s Tire

Just-In-Time Farm

Kerner’s Carwash

Lafayette Press

Lakeside Lanes

Lambert Funeral Home

Lefebvre’s Auto Repair

Little Bye Buys Boutique

Londonderry Hair

Longhorn Steakhouse

Luisa’s Pizza

Mack’s Apples

Majestic Theatre Group

Market Basket

McDonald’s Restaurant

McHugh Funeral Home

McQuesten Farm

Merrimack Ten Pin

Millnium Precision LLC

Mr. Mac’s

Nadeau’s Subs

Newbury Comics

Our Anonymous Donors

Palace Theatre

Papa Gino’s

Pappy’s Pizza

Peabody Funeral Home

Pelmac Industries

Pinard Waste Systems

PJ’s Flowers & Antiques LLC

Poultry Products Northeast

Puritan Backroom

Ride-Away

Rita Mae’s

Riverview Tobacco

Ruby Tuesday

Sal’s Just Pizza

Sam’s Club

See Science Center

Segway

Shannon Gray Salon

Shaw’s Supermarket

St. Marie Bookstore

St. Francis School

Stop N Shop

Super Stop & Shop

Suzanne’s Hair Waves

T.G.I. Fridays

Ted Bantis Trucking & Excavating

The Coach Stop

The Comfort Inn

The Lil’ Lobster

The Ministries of St. Francis

The Ninety Nine

The Parishioners of St. Francis

The Windham Restaurant

Tim’s Turf

Tinkers Seafood

Unique Motors

UnWine’d

Villaggio Ristorante

Warren’s Autobody

Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers

Whippersnappers

Windward Petroleum

Woof Meow

Russian River Cruise

Dennis Fontaine — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:35:02 +0000

St. Catherine of Siena Parish in Manchester, NH will be having an 11-day Russian River Cruise from September 21 through October 1, 2012. Russian Cruise Brochure (28) In addition to on-board activities, the trip will visit the world famous Hermitage Museum of St Petersburg, the former home of Catherine the Great, the Kremlin, Red Square and view the imperial treasures in the Armory Museum, and the rainbow-colored Double occupancy starts at $3,599 per person. Not included in the price is cancellation waiver and insurance.

For more information or for a brochure, call Fr Paul Montminy at 622-4966.

Russian Cruise Brochure (28)