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More than 150 students have docked at SonTreasure Island, where they are learning each day about God’s love through Bible stories, crafts, songs and island fun. They were greeted the first day by Father Thom, dressed in his best Gilligan’s Island apparel, hanging out...

Once again, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is encouraging Catholics across our country to enter into the period of the two weeks leading up to the Fourth of July with a strong focus on prayer, education, and reflection on our first freedom, freedom of religion....

A group of 29 teens from St. Francis Xavier Parish and their adult leaders leave today (June 13) for the Steubenville Youth Conference at  Franciscan University of Steubenville some two hours southeast of Medina, near the border of Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.  Our...

We are excited to welcome Father Chris Cox to the St. Francis Xavier Parish staff and family! He arrived Tuesday afternoon and is getting settled into the second-floor rectory office formerly occupied by Deacon Joe Loutzenhiser. He will celebrate his first Mass here at 7:30 a.m....

This weekend we say “see you soon” to our dear Father John Sungwoong Lee, who concludes his assignment at St. Francis Xavier Parish on June 10 and begins his new one at Communion of Saints Parish in Cleveland Heights. Father Lee will speak at all of the Masses this...

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We are pleased to congratulate 38 eighth-graders who will graduate St. Francis Xavier School on Wednesday, May 28. The 7 p.m. prayer service marks the end of their elementary and middle-school years, and we are happy to see what fine young men and women they have become! The rest...

We celebrate the May 17 ordination of Father Christopher Cox, who will join the St. Francis Xavier Parish staff in early June. All are welcome to attend the 10 a.m. ordination Mass at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist at East Ninth Street and Superior Avenue in downtown...

On May 21, Deacon Joe Loutzenhiser will mark 20 years since his ordination as a deacon in the Diocese of Cleveland. He prefers to celebrate simply, by attending 7:30 a.m. Mass that Wednesday morning, but we can’t let a milestone like this go by without allowing everyone the...

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