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05/24/2026

On May 17, 1990, the World Health Assembly made a historic declaration that changed everything for LGBTQ+ people worldwide. They officially stated that homosexuality is not a disease, a disturbance, or a perversion. This moment marked the end of decades of medical pathologization that had caused immeasurable harm to countless individuals who were told their identity was fundamentally wrong.

What makes this even more striking is how recent this milestone actually was. We're talking about 1990 - not the distant past, but within the lifetime of many people reading this today. The American Psychiatric Association had already made this change in 1973, but it took nearly two more decades for the World Health Organization to follow suit. Think about that timeline: people who are in their 40s today were born into a world where major medical institutions still classified being gay as a mental disorder.

This date reminds us that progress in LGBTQ+ rights is both recent and hard-won. Every step forward represents real people who fought to be seen as human, not sick. While we celebrate how far we've come, dates like May 17, 1990 serve as powerful reminders that the fight for equality and acceptance is still relatively new in the grand scheme of history. The validation that should have always existed had to be officially declared just over three decades ago."

05/24/2026

May is internationally recognized as a time to raise awareness about discrimination and violence faced by LGBTQ+ people around the world.

The month includes observances connected to the International Day Against H0m0phobia, Biph0bia and Tr*nsph0bia, which commemorates May 17, 1990 — the day the World Health Organization officially removed homos3xuality from its list of mental illnesses.

Across many countries, organizations, activists, and communities use this time to promote education, inclusion, equality, and support for people affected by H0m0phobia, Tr*nsph0bia, and Biph0bia.

For many supporters, the observance is both a celebration of progress and a reminder that advocacy against discrimination and prejudice continues worldwide.

05/24/2026

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Thank you to all who shared our Pentecost Mass this morning.
We will be having our Thursday evening prayer at 8 PM to 8:30 PM when we pray in silence and word reflecting on the gospel of the upcoming week.
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05/23/2026

05/17/2026

Thanks to all who participated in our Vigil Mass celebrating the Seventh Sunday of Easter this evening. All are welcome to join us next Sunday at 10 AM for the celebration of Pentecost Sunday

St. Francis Community of Faith for All People is an inclusive and affirming Catholic faith community. We are steeped in Catholic tradition. We celebrate all...

05/04/2026

“St. Clare of Assisi”
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“We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become”

St. Clare was a one of the first followers of Saint Francis and cofounder of the Poor Clares. She is known for her deep love of prayer, her radical simplicity, and her devotion to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. Clare, or in Italian, ‘Chiara’ means “light” or “bright.” It reflects her role as a light for the Franciscan Order and the Church. Her mother, during a pre-birth vision, was told she would bear a light that would “illumine the world”

The daughter of a noble family living in Assisi, Italy, Clare was known for her deep spirituality and love for the poor. She was attracted to the radical way of life preached by St. Francis. On the evening of Palm Sunday 1212 ,to the dismay of her family, Clare secretly met Francis and his small band of brothers to commit her life to God and to begin a community of women devoted to living the gospel called The Poor Clares, originally known as the Order of Poor Ladies. Everything she and her sisters made or grew they gave to others, and others in turn gave to the sisters. In this way they shared the lives and poverty of those around them. For Clare and Francis, Jesus doubled down being human, wounds and all, and having “no place to lay his head”, Christ lived in poverty too. They felt that the fewer things they had the more room they had for God in their hearts. Her friendship with St. Francis, her love for Jesus, the poor, and most vulnerable among her, shaped an entire movement that continues to this day.

I paint St. Clare holding a candle, a bright light in the darkness, as she too was known to be.

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04/26/2026

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Thank you to all who participated in this morning liturgy.
Please join us on Thursday evening at 8 pm as we reflect on the scriptures for the upcoming Sunday. All services are on Zoom.

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