ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI ROMAN CATHOLIC PARISH
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Welcome to the St. Francis of Assisi Parish
and Early Childhood Center Website

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Church Office: 9:30 - 1:00 pm weekdays.

Baptisms, Funerals, Marriages:
  • Call Fr. MIke for an appointment [693-1150]
  • please email Dave Sharp if you want to request a niche in our columbarium
Outreach:
  • will be open regular hours
  • donations for St. Vincent De Paul food bank can be placed in the receptacles in the chapel​
Mass times: Saturday @ 4:30PM    
Sunday @ 9am and 11:00a
All Masses will be live streamed when possible.

CONFESSIONS!!!
Where: in the sacristy of the CHAPEL
When
  • Every Saturday from 3pm-4pm with Fr. James Kelly

LATEST COVID-19 UPDATE
  • All who wish to come to Mass on Sunday are welcome in the church. We will still stream to this site but not to the chapel.
  • All other Covid-19 precautions, social distancing & masks, are still in effect.
Live Sunday Mass at 11:00. 
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​Here's what you need to know about attending Mass
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  • Masks are to worn by everyone over the age of 2 and must stay on except for the brief time you consume the Body of Christ.
  • Social distance of 6 feet between people must be followed at all times (Families may sit together without social distancing).
  • You must be in good health and within the last 2 weeks have NOT had a fever, sore throat, difficulty breathing or cough or traveled or been in contact with anyone who tested positive for COVID-19.
  • Take your body temperature before Mass; if it is 101.4° F or higher-Stay Home.
  • Please do not congregate before or after Mass inside or outside the church
  • Holy Communion:  Ushers will assist,  there will be one line, please stay 6 feet from the person in front of you.  You must receive the host in your hand [no gloves please].
     ​Beginning in 2015, The Foundation of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo, N.Y., Inc. (“Foundation”) began soliciting donations to its “Upon this Rock” (“UTR”) capital and endowment campaign.  The UTR campaign raised funds for many purposes, including soliciting funds for making essential upgrades to classroom facilities and technology of Christ the King Seminary (“CKS”), expanding CKS’s role as a center of retreat and religious celebration, and establishing an endowment fund for CKS. Unfortunately, in early 2020, CKS’s Board of Trustees determined that CKS would close at the end of the 2020-2021 academic year. CKS’s closure will make it impossible for the Foundation to use the UTR funds raised for CKS for their original intended purposes.  However, under New York law, when the original purposes for which funds are donated become impossible to achieve, those purposes can be modified in a manner consistent with original intent by the New York State courts. For many years, CKS provided education and formation for ordained and lay ecclesial ministers in the Diocese of Buffalo and beyond. Accordingly, the Foundation has asked the New York State Supreme Court for the County of Erie to approve a modification of the purposes of UTR funds raised for CKS so that those funds can be used to support the education and formation for ordained and lay ecclesial ministry in the Diocese of Buffalo, as determined in the discretion of the Foundation’s Board.
 
            If you have donated to UTR and would like to be heard regarding this requested modification, you may send a letter to: The Foundation of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo, N.Y., Inc., attention Executive Director, 795 Main Street, Buffalo, N.Y. 14203 or an email to donor.info@frcdb.org. Copies of letters or email received by the Foundation will be provided to the Court.  You may also make a formal filing in the legal proceeding entitled Matter of the Modification of Endowment Funds of The Foundation of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo N.Y., Inc., Erie County Index No. 814747/2020. In order for your submission to be available for the Court’s consideration, please be sure to send any letter or email, or make any filing, no later than Friday, April 9, 2021.  
Fr. Mike's Corona Virus Letter
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Links to articles about Spiritual Communion
  • How to make a Spiritual Communion when Mass is banned because of coronavirus
  • Public Mass ban in Italy leads to new focus on 'spiritual Communion'
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More  Important Updates!!

Reconciliation will be held on Saturday at 3:00PM in the Sacristy of the Chapel. It will be face-to face and you must wear a mask and maintain social distance.    

Weekday Masses

Monday-Friday in the Chapel at 8:30am 
  • no sign up - we can accommodate 25 people 
  • All participants must wear a mask and maintain 6' social distancing protocol.  You are asked to take your temperature before leaving your house and remain home, and call your doctor if your temp is 100.4 or above.
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Faith Formation

Growing Our Faith
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meet our staff and volunteers!
Thank you DAVE sharp for all your hard work and dedication!

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​Cecelia and I were high school sweethearts.  After high school we went our separate ways, Ceil went to Bingham General Hospital School of Nursing and I into the United States Air Force.  I was home on leave and stopped at her house to see how she was doing.  Her mom told me that she was away at school.  I decided to pay her a visit and the relationship was rekindled.  We were married in 1969.  We lived in Balston Spa, NY for about a year, moved to Rome, NY for about nine years, 1979 brought us to Tonawanda.  During those years our family was growing; Wayne, Mathew, Heather and Brian.

We became members of St. Francis in 1979.  There are so many memories of the activities and ministries over the past forty years.  Lawn Fetes, Keeping track of Bingo hours while Ceil worked the refreshments, Cutting grass at the cemetery with Tony Voell and Bob Hill, Building a pipe organ with Bob Hull, Parish Council, Trustee, and Columbarium file tender.  God has blessed our family in so many ways. Being a part of the St. Francis Family is just one of them.

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St. Francis of Assisi      
73 Adam Street              
Tonawanda, NY 14150

Church is located at:
150 Broad Street
​Tonawanda, NY 14150

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Click the link below to e-mail
parish@stfrancistonawanda.org
school@stfrancistonawanda.org

faithformation@stfrancistonawanda.org


Rectory:    716-693-1150
​Rectory Fax:
716-693-2025
School:      716-692-7886
 
Faith Formation: 716-909-7110
​Outreach:  716-693-6247


St. Clare Center*                     
144 Broad Street                      
Tonawanda, NY 14150 

​* faith formation and outreach are here


St. Francis of Assisi School
70 Adam Street
Tonawanda, NY 14150


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