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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis | Our parish exists to give Glory to God 4556 Telegraph Road, St. Louis, MO 63129 | sfastl.org | 314-487-5736 of 4556 Telegraph Rd, St. Louis, MO 63129 Saturdays 7:45 a.m. / 4:00 p.m. Phone: 314-487-5736 | Fax: 314-487-3701 Sundays 7:00 a.m. / 9:00 a.m. / 11:00 a.m. www.sfastl.org | [email protected] Weekdays Monday-Friday 6:00 a.m. / 7:45 a.m. Facebook: stfrancisstl | Twitter: @stfrancisstl Sacrament of Reconciliation Rectory Office Hours: M-F: 8:30 a.m.—4:30 p.m. Sunday: 8:15 a.m.—9:00 a.m. Rectory Office closed everyday: 12 noon—1:00 p.m. Saturday: 2:45 p.m.—3:45 p.m. Friday: 5:30 p.m.—6:30 p.m. CLERGY St. Anthony Devotions Reverend Anthony R. Yates [email protected] Tuesday after the 6:00 a.m. and 7:45 a.m. Mass. Pastor Eucharistic Adoration Reverend Kent M. Pollman [email protected] Monday—Thursday: 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Associate Pastor Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Reverend Mr. Patrick Moser [email protected] Sacrament of Baptism Transitional Deacon Attendance at a Baptismal Preparation Class is required prior to Baptism. Classes are held the 1st Thursday of the month in the Rectory Meeting Room. Please call the rectory or visit our website to register. PASTORAL STAFF Sacrament of the Eucharist and Confirmation Tammy Chumley [email protected] For those who have been baptized Catholic or wish to enter the Catholic Church, Coordinator of Evangelization Ext 104 sessions in the RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults) is required. For more information contact Linda Pudlowski (314) 799 9744. Jeremy Boyer [email protected] Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick Sacred Music & Liturgical Director Ext 107 If you or a loved one is seriously sick and would like a visit from one of the Hannah Auer | Youth Minister [email protected] parish priests, please call the rectory to request a visit. Due to privacy laws, hospitals no longer call to notify churches of parishioners who are ill so we need to be notified by a family member. Joseph Detwiler | Seminarian [email protected] Sacrament of Marriage Dominic Vahling | Seminarian [email protected] The Archdiocesan Preparation Program requires a minimum of six months Michael Meinhart | Seminarian [email protected] before your expected wedding date for spiritual study, instruction and discussion. Contact the rectory office to begin your preparation. Sacrament of Holy Orders and Vowed Religious Life PARISH STAFF If you are interested in learning more about a vocation to the priesthood or Bill Fulhorst [email protected] consecrated life, please contact one of the parish priests or the Archdiocesan Vocations Office at stlvocations.org. Director of Operations & Finance Ext 142 Holy Communion for the Homebound Pam Kemlage [email protected] Anyone in our parish who is homebound who would like to receive Holy Office Receptionist Ext 150 Communion please contact the rectory to make arrangements. Karen Higgins [email protected] St. Vincent de Paul Society Helpline 314-289-6101 Ext 2232 Administrative Coordinator Ext 101 FORMED – The Catholic Faith. On Demand. Stacey Fister [email protected] | Ext 109 www.formed.org | Parishioner code: W3EFPT Communications Coordinator [email protected] Parish Library Open Saturdays after 4 p.m. Mass, Sundays after 9 & 11 a.m. Masses, and Monday from 4:30-6:30 p.m. during the school year or by appointment. Donna Spaulding | [email protected] 4550 Telegraph Road, St. Louis, MO 63129 Phone: 314-487-5736, Ext 121 | Fax: 314-416-7118 [email protected] If you are new to the area, we look forward to meeting you personally. Beth Bartolotta [email protected] We pray that through our worship, you may experience the depth of Principal Ext 121 God’s love for us. To become a member, please e-mail the rectory office at [email protected] or register online at www.sfastl.org Hannah Auer [email protected] (click on the Contact tab and select Register With Us). We hope that School Secretary Ext 121 you find a home here among friends who pray together, work together and play together. Elaine Dyn [email protected] Pre-school Secretary Ext 132 If you have not been active in the practice of the Catholic Faith, we encourage you to return. If you would like to speak with someone on Karen Weber | CRE [email protected] | Ext 129 the parish staff, please do not hesitate to contact any one of us. Facility requests: [email protected] If a previous marriage has kept you from receiving the Sacraments, we Announcements for bulletin & pulpit are due by Monday at 12 noon. invite you to contact one of the priests. In many cases we can work with Bulletin announcements: [email protected] you toward a favorable solution so you can again receive the Pulpit announcements: [email protected] Sacraments in the Catholic Church. May we always keep in mind that this parish exists to give glory to God in all we do and for each one of us to be sanctified in our lives. St. Francis of Assisi, pray for us. Next weekend will be the seminarians last weekend here at St. Francis of Assisi Parish. We would like to thank them for Thank you, St. Francis of Assisi spending the past year with us and wish them all the best. May Parish, for welcoming me and the God bless them! other seminarians into your parish community this school year and for I have been very blessed to spend being a part of my formation for the my Sundays this school year at Priesthood of Jesus Christ. Whether SFA. I hope I have had the chance you realize it or not, you have all to at least say “hello” to each of played a significant role in building you as you left after Mass! I have up those who have been sent here especially enjoyed the opportuni- into future priests for the Church, ty to bring Communion to the residents at Bethesda every Sunday and we thank you for being part of afternoon. This summer I will be our lives. As I conclude my training assigned to a parish in my home at St. Francis, at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, and in St. Louis, I diocese of Springfield, Illinois. It is am grateful for the time I have been able to spend here and the hard to leave this parish after being great people I have met. I will continue to keep you in my here every week for a whole school prayers as I begin a new phase of my formation for heaven, year, but this only makes me more excited to be a priest serving as a priest in the Archdiocese of Omaha. May God because I know how beautiful parish life can be. I have been bless all of you and keep you close to Him. blessed to be an apprentice to some great role models -- —Deacon Patrick Moser Fr. Yates, Fr. Pollman, and Deacon Moser. Please pray for me, that I can continue to say “yes” to God's call! At the end of this academic year I —Dominic Vahling will be ending my assignment at St. Francis, so you will no longer I have had a great second year with see me serving Mass on Sundays. I you all here at St. Francis. Not only wanted to thank you all for being so have I had the wonderful oppor- kind to me during my time spent at tunity to pray with you all at St. Francis this year. I have grown Sunday Masses each weekend but I so much this year, and I look have also been privileged to visit forward to what God has planned some home bound parishioners. It for my next step in priestly has been a great joy to bring Jesus formation. Whatever His plans may in the Eucharist and the reassur- be, they will always come back to ance of prayers from the larger serving people in the Archdiocese parish community. Thank you from of St. Louis. My priestly formation is ordered to serving you, the bottom of my heart for and you have definitely given me much encouragement! This welcoming me into your parish year I received yet another small indication of what it will be family this past academic year. This summer I will be in a like to serve the people of God as a priest. Thank you to all of parish in my home diocese of Springfield, Illinois. Please keep you for making it such a joyful and affirming experience. I ask me in prayer as I continue on in formation; I will be keeping that you please keep me in your prayers, and I will keep you in you all in prayer and I will always be grateful for all the ways my prayers. May God bless all of you. the people of this parish have helped formed me to be a priest. —Joseph Detwiler —Michael Meinhart All are invited to St. Cecilia Cathedral in Omaha, NE on Saturday, June 2, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. for the ordination of Rev. Mr. Patrick Moser to the Sacred Priesthood by Archbishop George Joseph Lucas. The newly ordained Fr. Patrick Moser will celebrate his First Mass of Thanksgiving on Sunday, June 3, 2018 at 4:00 p.m. at St. Theresa’s Catholic Church in Clearwater, NE, with a reception to follow at St.