On Labor Day (September 1, 2025), Father Steven Brown (a long-time friend and visitor of Father Knott) celebrated and attended Mass at the local Little Sisters of the Poor's Home for the Aged here in Louisville. After Mass in the chapel, we were invited to stay for a special "picnic lunch" with the Sisters and Residents in the theater room. We sat at table with the two priest residents, Franciscan Father David and Dominican Father Anthony.
Father Steven Brown, besides pastoring several parishes, large and small, in the San Jose Diocese, served seven years in the African country of Tanzania as a Maryknoll Associate. Father Brown attended Major Seminary in Rome. He speaks Spanish, Italian, Swahili and English.
Since Father Brown's late mother used to volunteer at the Little Sister's Home in San Francisco and a couple of the Sisters had served there before it closed earlier this year, they had lots to talk about. Father Brown grew up in San Francisco before the Diocese of San Jose was created, but was ordained for the Diocese of San Jose. That diocese's first bishop was Bishop Pierre Dumaine, who happened to be born in Paducah, Kentucky, before his parents moved to California when he was a child.
Franciscan Father David used to volunteer for weekday Masses at the Cathedral of the Assumption when Father Knott was pastor there. Dominican Father Anthony served most of his years as a missionary in country of Pakistan. After that, he served several parishes in the US including our local St. Louis Bertrand Church and Priory.
Father Brown and Father Knott met some 40 years ago at a National Association of Priest Councils meeting in Kansas City, Kansas, and have stayed in touch and visited back and forth ever since.
The day before Labor Day (Sunday August 31, 2025), we celebrated Mass with the Louisville Ursuline Sisters Retirement Community at Twinbrook Nursing Home and had lunch with the Sisters following Mass.
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