May Fraternity Meeting
Today we had our fraternity meeting for the month of May, and what a good meeting it was! We might …
Category Archives: The Franciscan Life
The Canticle of the Creatures
October 4 is the Feast Day of St. Francis, which is always a time of joy for Franciscans, as well …
Meeting in Fraternity
We finally had a face-to-face fraternity meeting last Sunday! Five of us met in the courtyard outside St. Michael’s Parish …
Walking with St. Francis
Our fraternity is reading A Walk With St. Francis: 18 Days Of Readings And Reflections, by Cricket Aull OFS. Two …
Franciscan Quote of the Day: With gratitude
With gratitude We [Secular Franciscans] have a responsibility to show the temporal world that the gospel and the Franciscan charism …
Laudato Si: The heart of what it is to be human.
From today’s Franciscan Quote of the Day: [St.] Francis helps us to see that an integral ecology calls for openness to …
Fr. Richard Rohr’s reflections on Silence.
I’ve become a fan of Fr. Richard Rohr, the Franciscan priest who founded the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albequerque, …
Franciscan Quote of the Day: Doing what is ours to do
Our Holy Father, St. Francis, reminded us, through his desire to recreate the scene of the Incarnation at Greccio, that …
Reflection: Profession & Our Franciscan Life
She stood before the fraternity & congregation and repeated the words of the Rite of Profession: I, Ann… by the …
June 18: Venerable Matt Talbot
Today has been set aside by Mother Church to remember another Secular Franciscan, Matt Talbot. Matt strikes me as a …
Our Lady's Fraternity 