Parish News & Reflections

This Sunday's Gospel is the Parable of the Sower, and I want to tell you before you hear it preached why it has been sitting heavily with me this week. A sower goes…

Last Saturday at Augusta Pride 2026, Saint Francis Parish and Outreach signed up 16 people for our newsletter, distributed over 200 pamphlets on scripture and the LGBTQIA+ community, nearly 200…

This has been one of the more difficult weeks I have had in a long time. I want to be honest with you about that, because I think the pastoral relationship between a…

I want to begin this blog post with something personal, because the readings this Sunday landed personally, and I think you deserve to know why. Sunday, June 21, is my birthday. It is also…

After fifteen weeks of Lent and Easter, after the arc from SEE to BURN, after Pentecost and Trinity Sunday and Corpus Christi, we arrive at Ordinary Time. And I want to tell…

There is a question underneath every table. Who is allowed to sit here? Every human community has answered that question with some combination of inclusion and exclusion. The family table has its members and its…

This Sunday we celebrate the Most Holy Trinity, and I want to give you a preview of what we will be exploring together at Mass before I turn to something that has…

Fifteen weeks ago we began with one word: See. This Sunday we reach the last word of the series: BURN. Before we get there, Bishop Greer reflects honestly on what…

I want to say something honest before I say anything about the readings. Some people will choose to hurt you for doing the right thing. Not because you did it wrong.…