Do you think maybe I already belonged at our new St Francis Parish even before we existed?  

Francis is my middle name. And, on St Francis Day October 4, 1980, I was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Pittsburgh, just some of the ways our patron is important to me. Butler County is important to me too. Born at Butler Hospital, I lived in Butler, attended St Michael Church and its school, then went to Butler High. Then, between 1999 and 2006, I was Administrator at one of our ancestral parishes, St John, Coylesville. Now, I am very happy to be assigned to St Francis of Assisi Parish at its birth on January 4, 2021, as well as to our sister parish St Clare of Assisi next door.