ST. Francis Xavier- Brooklyn

06/07/2015

See you all today at the St Francis Xavier Parish picnic! Just south of the Tennis House in Prospect Park.

06/05/2014

PARK SLOPE SINGERS, JUNE 8, 5PM The Park Slope Singers are performing Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass on Sunday at St. Augustine's. The 60-member chorus will be joined by the Musica Bella Orchestra using Haydn's original scoring. Tickets are $20 ($10 for seniors and students). A reception will follow in the vestibule of the church. Hope to see you there!

05/27/2014

Reminder! We are hoping the weather will cooperate! See you at 7pm!

05/19/2014

POETRY IN THE GARDEN TUESDAY, MAY 27, 7PM Join us for our first Poetry in the Garden event presented by St. Francis Xavier and open to the whole community on Tuesday, May 27th at 7:00pm in our own beautiful garden adjacent to the church. Featured will be readings by Lois Adams, Patricia Markert, and Constance Norgren of Five Spice Poetry, a group of poets who write, publish, and perform in the New York City area and beyond. You are welcome to bring a lawn chair or blanket, and relax and listen to poems on a fine spring evening. Light refreshments will be served and there is no charge. All are invited and we look forward to seeing you there. Feel free to invite friends and neighbors.

04/20/2014

He has risen! Happy Easter!

04/09/2014

On Thursday April 10th, the Community of Sant’Egidio and St. Augustine invites all to join a special Prayer for the Martyrs at St. Augustine at 6:30 p.m. Continuing a tradition started in Rome, this prayer commemorates the faithful of all Christian traditions who have shed their blood for the sake of the Gospel in the last century.

“At the end of the second millennium, the Church has once again become a Church of martyrs. The persecutions of believers —priests, Religious and laity—has caused a great sowing of martyrdom in different parts of the world. The witness to Christ borne even to the shedding of blood has become a common inheritance of Catholics, Orthodox, Anglicans and Protestants.” (John Paul II, TMA, 37)

03/06/2014

You are kindly invited to join us.
Spirituality and the Church Experience
A Lenten Discussion with Father Michael Holleran
Hosted by the LGBTS Ministry of St. Augustine and the Rainbow Ministry of Immaculate Heart of Mary
Monday, March 31st at 7pm at the Rectory of St. Augustine, 116 Sixth Avenue, (between Park Place and Sterling)

Please join us for an evening of open discussion with Father Michael Holleran from the Church of Notre Dame as we explore how we connect spirituality to the church experience. We will be focusing on the theme of inclusivity and how our spiritual experience fits into the today’s experience as a modern Catholic.

Fr. Michael will discuss how to connect spiritually to the church experience. He will focus on the theme of inclusivity and how personal spiritual experiences can benefit from the experiences of everyday life. The discussion will include the themes of inclusivity and bringing people back to the church especially those who have felt marginalized in the past.

Fr. Michael was raised on Long Island, graduated from Fordham University, and spent five years as a Jesuit. He then transferred to the Carthusian Order, where he spent 22 years as a monk in Vermont, France (La Grande Chartreuse) and England. In 1994 he returned to New York where he has worked as a diocesan parish priest in Greenwich Village, the Bronx, and currently on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. In 2009, he was formally received as a priest of the Archdiocese of New York, and also became a Sensei in the Soto Zen tradition, at the hands of his longtime mentor, Roshi Robert Kennedy, S.J.

Please let us know if you plan to attend.
Best,
Kevin

02/20/2014

Catholic parish in Park Slope, Brooklyn, since 1886. We are a Parish Family - Gathered in Faith - Renewed in the Spirit and Sent Forth to Serve

01/06/2014

Join us on January 18 at 6:30pm at St. Augustine Park Slope for a concert featuring soloist Natalie Klempel, with accompaniment by Andrew Violette on piano. Ms. Klempel will sing select pieces by Franz Schubert and songs in their original Polish by Frederic Chopin.

12/09/2013

12/03/2013

Dear Friend,

Have you heard about the new trend for the holiday season?

Giving Tuesday! Not Black Friday, not Cyber Monday -- but today, Tuesday Dec 3, an antidote to the holiday shopping madness. This is a day to give back--to the causes you care about most.

We are asking all our friends and supporters to do something really simple on that day: Make a Gift to CHiPS and make a difference in the lives of the hungry in our soup kitchen, and the homeless young mothers in our Frances Residence. Invest in us and our work in Brooklyn.




In addition to supporting CHiPS on Giving Tuesday, there is another very important way you can help. You can get the word out!

Help us reach as many people as we possibly can, so we can make a huge difference together. Mobilize your networks of friends and contacts--share this CHiPS Giving Tuesday idea with all of them!
Send this email far and wide. Join in the conversation on Twitter and Facebook.
Or, get creative! Help us find new ways to share our story about this soup kitchen and residence for young mothers and their infants that has worked in Park Slope for over forty years. Largely staffed by volunteers and supported by local donations of food and money, it serves over 93,000 meals a year and provides housing for nine families.

Thank you, as always, for your friendship and support--and for all you do on behalf of our communities!

Denise Scaravella, Executive Director
CHiPS Soup Kitchen and Residence for Young Mothers
200 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY. 11217
(718) 237-2962
www.chipsonline.org

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Since 1971, CHiPS (Park Slope Christian Help, Inc.) has been a community of Brooklyn neighbors, volunteers, and friends united in service.

01/22/2013

Tonight, Jan. 22nd, The Oratory Church of St. Boniface will host the first of two round table discussions on gun control. Please Join us at 7:30pm for what is sure to be an intriguing conversation. Can't make it? The next discussion will be on Sunday the 27th at 10am

Location: 111 Willoughby Street, Newman Hall
Contact: [email protected]