Re-envisioning CYO: “The Frassati House”

In preparation for the upcoming 2024-2024 academic year, I wanted to share an exciting project for our CYO program and ask for your assistance. For the past year, St. Ann Hall (the former Catholic Charities Building) has sat dormant. The plan is to repurpose the first floor of this building as a new ‘hang-out’ space for our youth. The “Frassati House” will give our CYO a relaxed place to share time together and build Christian friendships which are so necessary to help young people remain dedicated to the faith. While the CYO will still continue to utilize spaces in the FLC for certain events, the weekly gatherings of our CYO program will relocate to the Frassati House where they can pray together, hear talks, play games, watch movies and enjoy time together.

Over the summer, the CYO will make a project out of cleaning, painting, and renovating this space. But, we need to furnish it to make it comfortable for our youth. We are interested in a large television, couches and/or comfortable chairs, lamps and a Nintendo Switch gaming system. If you are interested in contributing something toward this project, please contact the office to discuss. (Please do not bring items to the church before showing them to Jacob Ali and determining if they can be utilized in this space).

We decided to name this new space in honor of soon-to-be Saint Pier Giorgio Frassati — a young Italian man who, through the witness of his life, encourages us to climb “to the heights” of holiness.

—Father Aaron Williams