🎤 Lay Leadership Weekend – Witnesses of Our Parish ⛪
It was here at the Cathedral that my husband, Geoffrey, was called to join us in the Catholic Church. He was confirmed here by Fr. Christy and Deacon Rick back in 2024. Being called to pledge to the campaign means to support projects that build community here, such as the atrium project, as well as the Evangelization Center, which was special to us. It is incredible to hear that the campaign has already secured pledges well over the $2 million mark. We are well on our way to reaching our goal. I think we are indeed blessed here. - Dr. Wendy Purcell, Parishoner
To see more testimonials or submit one yourself about your love for our Cathedral Parish and School, visit our page below and be inspired by the stories of our St. Francis families 💛⛪ ✨
👉 https://www.stfranciscathedral.org/o/sfcs/page/rebuild-testimonials
It was here at the Cathedral that my husband, Geoffrey, was called to join us in the Catholic Church. He was confirmed here by Fr. Christy and Deacon Rick back in 2024. Being called to pledge to the campaign means to support projects that build community here, such as the atrium project, as well as the Evangelization Center, which was special to us. It is incredible to hear that the campaign has already secured pledges well over the $2 million mark. We are well on our way to reaching our goal. I think we are indeed blessed here. - Dr. Wendy Purcell, Parishoner
To see more testimonials or submit one yourself about your love for our Cathedral Parish and School, visit our page below and be inspired by the stories of our St. Francis families 💛⛪ ✨
👉 https://www.stfranciscathedral.org/o/sfcs/page/rebuild-testimonials
🎤 Lay Leadership Weekend – Witnesses of Our Parish ⛪
This past weekend, we were blessed to hear from members of our parish family who shared heartfelt testimonies about their love for our Cathedral and why the Rebuild My Church Capital Campaign is vital to strengthening our parish for generations to come. 💛⛪
"I led a team of 18 parishioners (some of whom are sitting here this morning) who conducted a very detailed survey of our entire campus and facilities, which took over six weeks to complete. The results were alarming. Many safety concerns were immediately addressed; however, there were much larger issues that could not be resolved by our staff alone and will require a significant capital campaign to improve.
Having functional, safe, and beautiful facilities provides us with the opportunity to live out our faith and truly be disciples of Christ. Together, we partake in the liturgy, evangelize through our faith formation ministries, serve the parish and local community through our outreach efforts, and gather with one another through our social ministries. This is the true meaning behind the moment God spoke to St. Francis, directing him to “Rebuild My Church.”"
-Dan Kovach, Parishoner
To see more testimonials or submit one yourself about your love for our Cathedral Parish and School, visit our page below and be inspired by the stories of our St. Francis families 💛⛪ ✨
👉 https://www.stfranciscathedral.org/o/sfcs/page/rebuild-testimonials
🎭The SFCS Drama Club began rehearsals for the production of “Lion🦁King, Jr.” inside the classrooms. They are eager to hit the stage to practice later this month. Come join us on May 14 and May 15 at 7pm in the CYO to see the production! Watch the Family E-velope for ticket🎟️information in the upcoming weeks. #SFCS
⛪️Our SFCS Class of 2022 was well represented today in the Cathedral. Evelyn Magee, Sarah Algier and Luke McCabe received the St. Timothy Award from the Diocese of Metuchen today for their outstanding leadership in faith and service. Additionally, Sarah and Evelyn received the St. Teresa Award for their commitment to ministry in our parish. Evelyn was nominated by the parish, Sarah by Mount Saint Mary Academy and Luke by St. Joseph High School. Congrats to these super🌟stars! #SFCS
📚What a spectacular day we had at SFCS yesterday as we celebrated, “Read Across🇺🇸America”! This celebration began in 1998 to highlight the importance of reading and promote literacy across our country. The students met with their buddies to connect, engage and read so many wonderful books from Dr. Seuss.🌟Special thanks to our student council who donated 2 books📕to all the classroom libraries and pencils✏️ for our teachers! #SFCS
👮🏻♂️State Police Officers Lee and Cimilluca came to talk about safety to our Kindergarten classes today. The children were so excited when the officers read them a Dr. Seuss book to kick off our school’s “Read across America”🇺🇸 celebration tomorrow. #SFCS
🗞️READ IT! READ IT! READ ALL ABOUT IT! SFCS’s student newspaper, The Crusader, is here. Copy & paste the link to read all about it!📰#SFCS #studentnewspaper
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✨It’s a Cathedral Weekend! ✨
🙌 Don't Miss it! 🔥💙
Rebuild My Church Capital Campaign
Lay Leadership Weekend
Come to Mass this weekend to listen, pray, and learn more about our Rebuild My Church Capital Campaign. Together, let us answer the call to strengthen our Cathedral parish and school for generations to come.
Cathedral
Wednesday March 4th
Put out Into the Deep: A Lenten Series by Fr. Christy at 7:00PM
Cathedral Community Room
Saturday, March 7
Men on Mission at 8:30 AM
Join other men of the parish in reflecting and sharing about Sunday's readings.
Cathedral Community Room
Bread and Soup Dinner at 5:00 PM
Enjoy Food and Fellowship this Lenten season
Cathedral Community Room
Register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHcfvykgkc_ywocEr1Hm-z4XEVZOuno1UV0YPOmy-_epGXdw/viewform?usp=header
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Upcoming and Other Important Information
see below for more information
Babka Sale Ordering March 7th/8th
Place your-pre-order after all masses. The Babka Sale is sponsored by the Circle of Friends in support of the St. Francis Cathedral Gardening ministry
⛵ Reminder: Join Us This Wednesday!
“Put out into the deep water and lower your nets for a catch.” (Luke 5:4)
Join us Wednesday, March 4 at 7:00 PM in the Community Room as Fr. Timothy Christy begins “Lent off Right” — an evening of reflection, prayer, and faith to start the Lenten season.
All are welcome. Come and be renewed this Lent. ✝️
#Lent #CathedralFamily #FaithJourney #StFrancisCathedral
“Put out into the deep water and lower your nets for a catch.” (Luke 5:4)
Join us Wednesday, March 4 at 7:00 PM in the Community Room as Fr. Timothy Christy begins “Lent off Right” — an evening of reflection, prayer, and faith to start the Lenten season.
All are welcome. Come and be renewed this Lent. ✝️
#Lent #CathedralFamily #FaithJourney #StFrancisCathedral
📚Our third grade classes have been completing monthly book projects. After they read a book of a different genre, they would present their completed project to the class. For the month of February, the students read biographies and dressed up as the person they read about. They became their character as they shared important facts about their lives. Today 3A and 3B were visited by many famous people from history to present day including: Albert💡Einstein, Leonardo🎨da Vinci, Derek⚾️Jeter, Helen👓Keller, Frida👩🏽🎨 Kahlo, George🇺🇸Washington and Taylor🎤Swift. Our students are truly learning and living a love of reading!📖 #SFCS
Good Afternoon,
Due to the continued snow removal on the St. Francis Cathedral campus and side streets, school will be closed on Tuesday Feb 24th.
Thank you,
Principal Dalton
Due to the continued snow removal on the St. Francis Cathedral campus and side streets, school will be closed on Tuesday Feb 24th.
Thank you,
Principal Dalton
❄️ School Closed – Monday, February 23 ❄️
Due to inclement weather, St. Francis Cathedral School will be closed on Monday, February 23.
Enjoy the snowfall and stay warm! ☃️💙
✨Mrs. Sheila Vargas-Makrinos came to visit the PreSchool’s “South American Rainforest 💦Hallway” today. She met with Mrs. Teller and Mrs. Magee’s PreK 3 and 4 year old classrooms to answer all their questions about🇧🇷Brazil. She taught our students some🇵🇹Portuguese words and brought them some🥥coconut truffles to taste. It was a wonderful look at a different part of the world for them!😃 #SFCS
✨Congratulations to 7th grader, Carl T. who won the SFCS School Spelling Bee yesterday afternoon! He will represent our school in the Scripps Regional Spelling Bee on March 14th for a chance to go to Nationals. Way to go spelling star!🌟#SFCS
✨Our Kindergartners have been busy preparing for Lent. Yesterday, Sister Jo’s class celebrated “Fat Tuesday” with a Mardi Gras. Today, both classes received their Ash Wednesday ashes from Deacon Rick.☦️ #SFCS
⛪️This Ash Wednesday morning, our students attended holy Mass and received their ashes. We came together as a school community to begin our forty day Lenten season of prayer, fasting and repentance.✝️ #SFCS
✝️ Ash Wednesday – February 18 ✝️
Enter the season of Lent with prayer, repentance, and hope.
Join us for Mass and the distribution of ashes at one of our opportunities throughout the day:
🕖 7:00 AM
🕗 8:00 AM
🕛 12:10 PM
🕔 5:00 PM
“Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
Come begin Lent with your Cathedral family.
Enter the season of Lent with prayer, repentance, and hope.
Join us for Mass and the distribution of ashes at one of our opportunities throughout the day:
🕖 7:00 AM
🕗 8:00 AM
🕛 12:10 PM
🕔 5:00 PM
“Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
Come begin Lent with your Cathedral family.
🔥The Olympic Spirit is alive in Mrs. Burke’s 3rd grade class as students participated in their own opening ceremony and individual events this week. Team events commence next week.🥇🥈🥉#SFCS
💕It was Valentine’s Day math in Mrs. Masset’s 2nd grade class today. They sorted conversation hearts by color and then used the information to make a bar 📊graph. They wrote math graph questions and tried to see who could make the tallest tower out candy of hearts. It was way harder than it looks!🤣 #SFCS
❣️Our 5th graders visited their PreK buddies today. They had a great time making Valentine’s Day 💌cards together!😊 #SFCS
