He ascended. And then he said: go. 🕊️

This Sunday we celebrate the Ascension of the Lord at Saint Francis Parish and Outreach. The disciples stood staring at the sky where Jesus had been. Two figures in white interrupted them with a gentle but urgent question: why are you still looking up?
The commission is still the same. All nations. All the way to the ends of the earth. With the promise: I am with you always.
Come and be part of a community that is learning to stop staring and go.

📅 Sunday, May 17 at 3:00 PM ET
📍 557 Greene Street, Augusta, Georgia

📺 Live online:
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▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SaintFrancisParish
▶️ TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@saintfrancis30901
▶️ OCCI Video: https://video.myocci.social

— Bishop Greer 🕊️
oursaintfrancis.org

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Something we have been working on is finally ready. 🕊️

Our website at oursaintfrancis.org has been completely rebuilt — faster, cleaner, and designed to make it easy for anyone to find us, learn about us, and connect with what we do.

Whether you are joining us for the first time or have been part of this community for years, the new site has everything: Mass information, livestream links, our sermon series and blog, the Blessing Bag outreach wishlist, the newsletter signup, and ways to give.

We built it because we believe that the way we show up online matters just as much as the way we show up on Greene Street. Come find us.

🌐 oursaintfrancis.org

— Bishop Greer 🕊️

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🌹 Happy Mother's Day from Saint Francis Parish and Outreach!

Join us this Sunday, May 10 at 3:00 PM ET for the Sixth Sunday of Easter. We continue our series What the Spirit Builds with the word SPEAK — and we will be honoring every mother and every person who has filled that motherly role in someone's life.

All are welcome. No exceptions. Ever. 🕊️

📍 In person: 557 Greene Street, Augusta, Georgia 30901

📺 Watch live at 3:00 PM ET:

▶️ Facebook: **https://www.facebook.com/SaintFrancisParish**
▶️ YouTube: **https://www.youtube.com/@SaintFrancisParish**
▶️ TikTok: **https://tiktok.com/@saintfrancis30901**
▶️ OCCI Video: **https://video.myocci.social**

**oursaintfrancis.org** 💛

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🕊️ Join us THIS SUNDAY for the Fifth Sunday of Easter!

Saint Francis Parish and Outreach
📅 Sunday, May 3, 2026 at 3:00 PM ET

This week we continue our Easter series What the Spirit Builds with the word BELONG. We'll be in Acts 6, 1 Peter 2, and John 14 — and the message is simple: there is room in the Father's house for everyone. No exceptions. No fine print.

Whether you're in the pew or on your couch, we want you with us.

📍 In person: 557 Greene Street, Augusta, Georgia 30901

📺 Watch live at 3:00 PM ET:
▶️ Facebook: **https://www.facebook.com/SaintFrancisParish**
▶️ YouTube: **https://www.youtube.com/@SaintFrancisParish**
▶️ TikTok: **https://tiktok.com/@saintfrancis30901**
▶️ OCCI Video: **https://video.myocci.social**

All are welcome. Always. 💛
**oursaintfrancis.org**

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🌈 We're going to Pride, and we need your help to get there!

Saint Francis Parish and Outreach is raising $1,000 by June 1 to have a booth at Augusta Pride 2026 — so we can be right there on the ground, showing our community that there is a Church that actually means it when it says all are welcome.

If you've ever wished there was a Christian presence at Pride that wasn't there to judge but to welcome, this is your chance to put us there.

💛 Venmo: @saintfrancisparish
💛 PayPal: paypal.me/saintfrancisparish
💛 Cash App: $saintfrancisparish

Every dollar gets us closer. Share this post. Tag someone who needs to know we exist. Let's go to Pride. 🕊️

📍 Saint Francis Parish and Outreach
557 Greene Street, Augusta, GA 30901
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🐑 This Sunday is Good Shepherd Sunday at Saint Francis Parish and Outreach, and we would love to have you with us.

Join us for the Fourth Sunday of Easter as we continue our Easter series What the Spirit Builds — this week’s word is TEND. We’ll be reading from John 10, praying Psalm 23, and celebrating Mass together as a community that believes the table is set for everyone.

📍 In person: 557 Greene Street, Augusta, Georgia 30901

📺 Online — watch us live:

▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SaintFrancisParish
▶️ TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@saintfrancis30901
▶️ YouNow: https://YouNow.com/BishopGreg
▶️ OCCI Video: https://video.myocci.social

All are welcome. No exceptions. Come as you are.

🌐 oursaintfrancis.org

#GoodShepherdSunday #WhatTheSpiritBuilds #TEND #SaintFrancisParish #AugustaGA #OldCatholic #AllAreWelcome #LiveMass #Easter2026

Statement of the Old Catholic Churches International on President Trump's Attack on Pope Leo XIV

Issued by the Right Reverend Greer Godsey, OSFoc, Presiding Bishop Greer Godsey

April 13, 2026

We have watched with grave concern as President Donald Trump launched a public attack tonight on Pope Leo XIV, calling the Holy Father "weak" and "terrible" and demanding that he "stop catering to the Radical Left." The cause of this attack is clear: Pope Leo called for peace. He asked that wars cease. He condemned the idolatry of force.

That is not weakness. That is the Gospel.

We do not share all things in common with the Roman Catholic Church. Our tradition is distinct, and our independence from Rome is long-established. But on this we have no ambiguity: a political leader who attacks the leader of the world's largest Christian communion because that leader dared to say "enough with war" has revealed something important about himself and about the values he serves. Those values are not the values of Jesus of Nazareth.

The Book of Isaiah is not a radical left document. The Sermon on the Mount is not soft on crime. The command to seek peace and pursue it is not a foreign policy failure. It is the Word of God.

We stand in solidarity with Pope Leo XIV's call for peace, for the protection of civilian life, and for the dignity of every human person caught in the crossfire of war. We call upon all Old Catholic faithful, all clergy, and all persons of good will to reject the weaponization of Christian language in service of military aggression, and to pray for the courage of those who speak truth to power at cost to themselves.

Pax et Bonum.

The Right Reverend Greer Godsey, OSFoc
Presiding Bishop, Old Catholic Churches International

#oldcatholic #romancatholic #trump

Statement of the Old Catholic Churches International on President Trump's Attack on Pope Leo XIV

Issued by the Right Reverend Greer Godsey, OSFoc, Presiding Bishop Greer Godsey

April 13, 2026

We have watched with grave concern as President Donald Trump launched a public attack tonight on Pope Leo XIV, calling the Holy Father "weak" and "terrible" and demanding that he "stop catering to the Radical Left." The cause of this attack is clear: Pope Leo called for peace. He asked that wars cease. He condemned the idolatry of force.

That is not weakness. That is the Gospel.

We do not share all things in common with the Roman Catholic Church. Our tradition is distinct, and our independence from Rome is long-established. But on this we have no ambiguity: a political leader who attacks the leader of the world's largest Christian communion because that leader dared to say "enough with war" has revealed something important about himself and about the values he serves. Those values are not the values of Jesus of Nazareth.

The Book of Isaiah is not a radical left document. The Sermon on the Mount is not soft on crime. The command to seek peace and pursue it is not a foreign policy failure. It is the Word of God.

We stand in solidarity with Pope Leo XIV's call for peace, for the protection of civilian life, and for the dignity of every human person caught in the crossfire of war. We call upon all Old Catholic faithful, all clergy, and all persons of good will to reject the weaponization of Christian language in service of military aggression, and to pray for the courage of those who speak truth to power at cost to themselves.

Pax et Bonum.

The Right Reverend Greer Godsey, OSFoc
Presiding Bishop, Old Catholic Churches International

#oldcatholic #romancatholic #trump

Statement of the Old Catholic Churches International on President Trump's Attack on Pope Leo XIV

Issued by the Right Reverend Greer Godsey, OSFoc, Presiding Bishop Greer Godsey

April 13, 2026

We have watched with grave concern as President Donald Trump launched a public attack tonight on Pope Leo XIV, calling the Holy Father "weak" and "terrible" and demanding that he "stop catering to the Radical Left." The cause of this attack is clear: Pope Leo called for peace. He asked that wars cease. He condemned the idolatry of force.

That is not weakness. That is the Gospel.

We do not share all things in common with the Roman Catholic Church. Our tradition is distinct, and our independence from Rome is long-established. But on this we have no ambiguity: a political leader who attacks the leader of the world's largest Christian communion because that leader dared to say "enough with war" has revealed something important about himself and about the values he serves. Those values are not the values of Jesus of Nazareth.

The Book of Isaiah is not a radical left document. The Sermon on the Mount is not soft on crime. The command to seek peace and pursue it is not a foreign policy failure. It is the Word of God.

We stand in solidarity with Pope Leo XIV's call for peace, for the protection of civilian life, and for the dignity of every human person caught in the crossfire of war. We call upon all Old Catholic faithful, all clergy, and all persons of good will to reject the weaponization of Christian language in service of military aggression, and to pray for the courage of those who speak truth to power at cost to themselves.

Pax et Bonum.

The Right Reverend Greer Godsey, OSFoc
Presiding Bishop, Old Catholic Churches International

#oldcatholic #RomanCatholic