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 …
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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 …
December Newsletter
Please click here for our December Newsletter. Highlights: Prayer & Thanksgiving intentions Secular Franciscan Saint of the Month: Blessed Peter of …
Lighting A Candle
I have some sympathy for millennialists, those who believe that the end of the world is near. One has only …
…he would call creatures, no matter how small, by the name of ‘brother’ or ‘sister’
Franciscan Quote of the Day… Laudato Si: The language of fraternity and beauty His [St. Francis] response to the world …
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 …
June 2014 Newsletter
Here’s the June newsletter: June ’14. Highlights: Ann’s profession Franciscan Saint of the Month: St. Thomas More “Lay vocation: Specific Mission is …
Choosing Joy
I wrote the following for this month’s newsletter, but thought I’d repost it here. T.S. Eliot’s poem The Wasteland begins …
May 2014 Newsletter
Here’s the May newsletter: May ’14. Highlights: Franciscan Saint of the Month: Blessed Franz Jägerstätter Andy’s Column: a reflection on facing …
Secular Franciscan Saint-of-the-Day: St. Angela Merici
Today is the memorial for St. Angela Merici, a fellow Secular Franciscan who lived from 1470(?) to 1540, who founded “the …
Our Lady's Fraternity 