Franciscan Christmas Fair Online
OnlineThis year the well-known Franciscan Christmas Fair will be online from November 21 to December 20. Shop for your favorite items – Franciscan pottery, candles, knitted and sewn items, olive wood products from the Holy Land, rosaries, greeting cards and many more! See photos of the Living Creche from previous years! Buy raffle tickets for [...]
Flu Clinic is Open!
The seasonal flu vaccine is available at Franciscan Home Care and Hospice Care! Please call to make an appointment. At the time of your appointment please remain inside your vehicle and call the office at 203-238-1441.
Christmas Day
We wish all of our patients, their families, and all of our staff a very Happy and Blessed Christmas! Though he was in the form of God, Jesus did not deem equality with God something to be grasped at. Rather, he emptied himself and took the form of a slave, being born in the [...]
New Year’s Day
May our clients and families, staff members and volunteers look forward to a year of happiness and good health!
First Sunday of Lent
Sundays provide an opportunity to take extra time for God’s Word in Scripture. Pope Francis encourages us “in this Lenten season, accepting and living the truth revealed in Christ means, first of all, opening our hearts to God’s word, which the Church passes on from generation to generation.” We are all chosen to participate in God’s plan [...]
2nd Sunday of Lent
The story of the Transfiguration is hard to imagine: standing in the presence of Moses, Elijah, and Our Lord and then descending the mountain to reenter the ordinary routine of life. Like Peter, who wanted to build three tents, we often struggle with the connection between the transcendent and the mundane. A beautiful mosaic on [...]
Third Sunday of Lent
Depending on whether your parish has an RCIA program, you may hear one of two Gospels this weekend. Cleansing of the Temple Today, standing in the Temple area, we see Jesus cast out the money changers and those selling animals. He tells them to “stop making my Father’s house a marketplace” (Jn 2:16). How do [...]
Fourth Sunday of Lent
Depending on whether your parish has an RCIA program, you may hear one of two Gospels this weekend. Nicodemus When Nicodemus asks how he can be born again, Jesus responds that everyone who believes in “the Son of Man will have eternal life” (Jn 3:15) and “whoever lives the truth comes to the light” (Jn [...]
Saint Patrick’s Day
We wish all of our patients, families, and staff a Happy Saint Patrick's Day!
Palm Sunday
In the midst of Jesus’s triumphant entrance into Jerusalem, there is a simultaneous note of discord. We can easily imagine the same crowds who shout, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” shouting, “Crucify him!” As we make our way inexorably forward in our mission, what fears do we have that might stop us from committing [...]