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A message from our pastor---- Welcome to our website. I hope we can serve you well through this site and whenever you call or visit the parish office or when you join us for any of our liturgies or activities. We want to get to know you and live our faith together in Jesus Christ. We have a very friendly and lively faith community. Our parish is in an area of rapid growth, so most of our parishioners come from "somewhere else". Many moved from other states seeking the sun and family. Like them, I moved to Phoenix, having begun my priestly ministry in northern California. I was ordained a Catholic priest in 1985 for the Diocese of Santa Rosa and was granted permission to serve in Phoenix starting in 2000. I was assigned by Bishop Thomas O'Brien to St. Clare Parish on July 1, 2002. I continue to serve under our new shepherd, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted who was installed as bishop on December 20, 2003. He incardinated me in March 2005. I am delighted to be part of this new parish and to be a priest of the Diocese of Phoenix. Our first parochial vicar, Fr Sylvester Modebei, began his assignment here in July 2010. We welcome him from his diocese in Nigeria. St. Clare of Assisi Catholic Church was established by Bishop O'Brien on July 1, 2000 with its first pastor being, Rev. John Coleman. We cover approximately 65 square miles within and around the city of Surprise - an area of rapid growth in the northwest region of the Phoenix metropolitan area. Registration.... You are very important to us! Please call or come to the office to register your name and family members' names, ages, sacraments, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail address and special needs or interests so that we can serve you better!
Our Parish Boundaries Google map of Our Parish In order to serve our communities best, the Catholic Church divides an area into parishes and sets parish boundaries so that priests and pastoral services are more equally distributed. Our mission at St. Clare of Assisi is to serve all the people within our parish boundary, and registered parishioners who live outside the boundary as long as they are able to come to our church site. If a parishioner is ill and lives outside the boundary, normally their local parish will serve them best when they need the sacraments because they are closer and can more easily visit the hospital or home of the person who is ill. If we can be of help at such times, please do not hesitate to call us and we will be more than happy to assist you. Del Webb Hospital is just outside the parish but close enough that we regularly see our parishioners there and bring the Anointing of the Sick and Holy Communion. Our Lady of Lourdes Parish and our ministers share the visitation duties there. Boswell Hospital is much further away, in St Clement Parish, but we do our best to visit there or ask someone from St Clement or St Joachim and St Anne Parish to visit. Boswell also has a Catholic priest on staff Mon-Fri during the day. We also visit many assisted living residences and the local hospices. In addition to the two parish priests we have several deacons and many lay Ministers of Care. We also have a very active St. Vincent de Paul Society to serve the area's poor and needy. North: Beginning at the junction of Grand Avenue and Litchfield Road, thence northwesterly along Grand Avenue almost to the town of Wittman West: Thence south on 211th Avenue to the junction of Waddell Road South: Thence east along Waddell Road to Litchfield Road East: Thence north along Litchfield Road to Grand Avenue
Our Parish Mission Statement Saint Clare of Assisi parishioners strive to be faithful disciples of Christ's Catholic community, drawing strength from the Eucharist, living the Gospel of Jesus without compromise, doing works of charity and justice. In our lives we seek to be "doers" of the word:
I invite you to share the mission Christ gave us and His vision of a restored harmony with God and our neighbors. Together, with God's grace we can move closer to the fulfillment of God's loving plan. Your servant in Christ in union with our Blessed Mother Mary, Fr. Hans P. Ruygt
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To see neighboring parish locations, click here: Maps: Parishes & Schools in the Diocese
Our neighboring parishes are: ►Our Lady of Lourdes Parish (one parish with two churches) map Includes parts of northern Surprise east of Grand Ave. O.L. Lourdes Church N. 128th Ave. Sun City West 623-546-2767 map Prince of Peace church, 14818 W. Deer Valley Dr, Sun City West, 623-214-5180 map
►Santa Teresita Parish, 14016 N. Verbena St., El Mirage 623-583-8183. Includes parts of Surprise east of Litchfield Rd. and south of Waddell Rd. map
►St. Anthony Parish, 232 N. Tegner St., Wickenburg, 928-684-2096. Includes Sun City Festival, northern part of the city of Buckeye, and other residential developments west of the alignments of North 211th Ave. and West Waddel Rd. map
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