All Things New Planning Process

 

Thanks to all of you who participated in the Town Hall meetings in August and submitted questions, ideas, and concerns. Our ACC Planning Committee will be meeting in September to prayerfully review the input you have provided and begin to draft a plan in view of the December 31 deadline. When we have a draft prepared, we will be sharing it with you for further input. Please keep this process sincerely in your prayers, that together we may hear and follow the voice of the Holy Spirit.

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Just a reminder that resources related to the All Things New Planning Process are available at https://stcdio.org/all-thingsnew/ (or scan the QR code), including the Introductory Guidebook being used by the committee. Copies of this guidebook are also available in your parish office.

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Word & Communion at SFX

Word & Communion at St. Francis Xavier going forward.

From Flocknote dated July 3, 2025 

Fr. Tom and I arrived as pastors of the newly formed One in Christ Area Catholic Communities in July 2020, amidst masks and reservations. (Let’s pray that was a once in a lifetime experience) Our parishes have worked together in several areas, including the rotating of Mass presiders on weekends. Currently the All Things Are New committee is beginning to work on future plans for our parishes. A next step for our parishes (Four unique traditions) is to see us as one parish with four worship sites. In our One in Christ Parishes there are usually two weekday Masses daily (Monday has only one Mass). With all our parishes in close proximity, it doesn’t make sense to offer Word and Communion services at St. Francis Xavier when there is not a weekday day Mass. We encourage you to attend a weekday Mass at one of the other parishes, when Mass is not being offered at St. Francis Xavier. For the time being, the Monday morning Word and Communion service will continue, since it has a long history. In the Catechism, number 1324, we read, “The Eucharist is "the source and summit of the Christian life." The other sacraments, and indeed all ecclesiastical ministries and works of the apostolate, are bound up with the Eucharist and are oriented toward it. For in the blessed Eucharist is contained the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely Christ himself, our Pasch.” As such, it is important to root our spiritual lives in the graces which flow from the Mass. Word and Communion services are to be used when the faithful do not have reasonable access to daily Eucharist.”