St Francis of Assisi Church

Barely able to call itself a catholic church. I have never in my entire life been to a catholic church as irreverant and lacsidaical as this. Neither the congregation nor the pastor facilitate prayer before mass as he himself wanders around chatting up his friends loudly while you are trying to pray. Much of the congregation wears flipflops and shorts to Sunday mass and the parking lot is still half empty 5 minutes till. Homilies are shallow and with the sole intent of making the listeners feel good about themselves at the end. The idea of actually hearing theology in a homily is laughable.
Mass at St Francis is more akin to attending a club or the theater with constant distractions such as a stand up and make friends with you neighbor time at the beginning of mass or a round of applause for new graduates/​mothers/​fathers/​etc instead of a prayer.
The congregation are more than friendly while you’re in person in the church but any charity is lost as soon as you leave the building for the parking lot. Expect to be cut off and not let out by cars with pro-​choice bumper stickers and other non-​catholic doctrine that the priest’s are too afraid to tell their congregation isn’t congruous with the statement of faith they make every Sunday for fear of loosing popularity.
While they’re not as borderline heretical at St. Francis as they were 10 years ago when I had to leave because of direct opposition to statements from Rome, they are still far from leading you towards sainthood.

This is the first Catholic Church my family has been able to truly call home in a long time. We recently moved to the area, and had gone to several other Catholic Churches before we decided to give St. Francis a try. This is a Franciscan Church in both name and spirit. At every mass the children bring up donations for the shelters in the area, and they are very active in Social justice in the community. The priests are kind and funny. They are all personable and even with such a large parish often know everybody’s name. The staff are helpful and registration is easy. I love this parish and will be going here for years to come.
The Available Weekend Masses are as follows:
Saturday Vigil:
5:30−6:30 PM
Sunday Mass:
7:30– 8:30 AM
9:00– 10:00 AM
10:30−11:15 AM — Children’s Mass (Shorter Liturgy and almost entirely families with young children)
12:00−1:00 PM
1:30– 2:30 PM — Spanish Mass
5:30−6:30 PM