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St. Francis Parish Celebrates Mardi Gras February 11, 2024, at 2:00pm
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Bishop McDermott Visit 1/19/25
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St. Francis Parish Celebrates Mardi Gras February 11, 2024, at 2:00pm
Come join us at our “Fat Tuesday” celebration, hosted by St. Francis of Assisi Parish. Music is provided by the East Bay Jazz Combo under the direction of Gerry Grimo. Traditional (as well as some novel), New Orleans Jazz selections, fitting the Mardi Gras pageantry, will surely lift your soul these last days before Lent.
The festivities include a “King Cake” competition. If you would like to enter the competition, please contact the Parish office at (802)674-2157 as soon as possible for planning purposes, or if you have any questions.
So, bring your beads and masks to what promises to be a great time. Suggested donation is $10.00 per person to benefit the St. Francis Fuel Fund.
RESCHEDULED DUE TO STORM COMING
Epiphany Concert: now scheduled for January 14, 2024 at 2:00 pm.
Hosted by St. Francis of Assisi Parish, this choral concert presents area performers and special guests, accompanied by Gerry Grimo, Parish Director of Music.
Come and explore the many traditions of Epiphany expressed musically by traditional and original arrangements. While there, enjoy some refreshments at intermission.
Experience the diversity of these performers, while seated in the wonderful acoustics of the Church gathering space.
Suggested donation is $10.00 per person to benefit the St. Francis Fuel Fund.
Sunday, November 19th St. Francis Concert Fundraiser The Councils are organizing a concert to raise funds for our winter fuel bills. Time: 2:00 pm with a $10.00 recommended Donation About the Singing Group: ”One Voice” is a small church choir from Lebanon, New Hampshire. It was Fr William Kaliyadan’s idea, when he was parish priest at Sacred Heart, Lebanon, from 2004-2015, to form a choir of parishioners of all nationalities, hence our name. We comprise singers from the USA, the Philippines, India, and New Zealand. Some of our singers have also sung with the Philippine Heart Center Nursing Chorale and the Handel Society of Dartmouth College, and others are current members of the Voxstars, North Country Chordsmen, Vtones, Bated Breath, and Marksmen. Many members of the group can also be found playing musical instruments in orchestra pits, big bands, and community bands throughout the Upper Valley, and beyond. When we are not making music together we are also nurses, educators, administrative professionals, computer programmers, mechanical engineers, software developers, laboratory specialists, and scientists. We were recently asked to sing the final masses at La Salette Shrine in Enfield, NH. We have a genuine love and joy of singing deeply religious pieces. In essence we pray twice through our singing. The camaraderie established is palpable with all of us and it is embodied in the sound we create. We believe that church music should be inclusive and, as appropriate, be joyful.
Jacqueline Smith, an Associate of Trinity College, London (piano), grew up accompanying and singing in school and church choirs in New Zealand. She has also sung in a choir in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the Handel Society of Dartmouth College, and in the Concertato Singers. She has been the enthusiastic director of One Voice since its inception