My Final Farewell to the MAC Pastorate

Today, Thursday, June 30, 2022, I bid a final farewell to these three parishes where I served as Pastor beginning in August of 2018.  

My religious community, the Conventual Franciscan Friars (OFM Conv.), has withdrawn from the ministry and care of these Pastorate Parishes - of St. Michael the Archangel (since 2018), the Church of the Annunciation (since 2009), and St. Clement Mary Hofbauer (since 1994).

Officially on July 1, 2022, diocesan priests, Fr. Hector Mateus-Ariza, Pastor, Fr. Macias “Wency” Serafica, Parochial Vicar, and (continuing as she has for the past 30 years) Mission Helper of the Sacred Heart, Sr. Susan Engel, MHSH, Pastoral Associate (along with a fantastic staff with various years of service), will henceforth provide pastoral care for the three parishes. May God bless them in their ministry! 

Thank you, good and blessed people of these parishes, for allowing me to serve you as Pastor. You will always hold a special place in my heart!  

Thanks also to Friars John, George, Romuald, Edward, and Benedict, with whom I lived and worked in the parishes. And to the friars of Archbishop Curley High School: Donald, Vincent, Bart, Bryan, and Christopher, I’m grateful for their much-appreciated weekend help (not to mention the various Diocesan priests. +Thomas, Jim, Ron, and Sam, who were always willing to step in when needed!).

And no words can express the amount of gratitude I have for our Pastoral Associate, Sister Susan Engel. She was often the joyful “glue” that held everything together!!!

This day finds me with a heavy, but very thankful heart!  

Paz y bien, y adiós, hermanos míos! Friar Timothy (aka Fray Teo) 

Praise God!