Finding Peace
Through God's Sense of Humor Friar Vincent Vivian spent 17 years as a missionary in Ghana. It was during this time that he says he discovered God's sense of humor.…
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Finding Peace
Our Global Human Family
The San Damiano Friary in San Antonio, Texas, is a house of formation for many of our student friars. On April 23, 2022, a new expansion providing twelve more bedrooms…
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Our Global Human Family
Planting a Tree, Painting a Mural
Holy Cross Retreat Center in Mesilla Park hosted two events for Earth Day. On Friday evening, April 22, about 45 people gathered for an interfaith prayer service to recall the…
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Planting a Tree, Painting a Mural
A Discernment Diptych
Panel I: Wounded Men Make the Best Friars My freshmen used to revel in peppering me with religious “what if…” questions. Centuries before them, medieval theologians reveled in peppering one…
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A Discernment Diptych
Easter Flowers in Poland
Friars and Ukrainian Refugees Praying in the Basilica of Saint Francis in Kraków, Friar Arek Żelechowski contemplates the wall mural of pansies woven into trellis-style lattice work, his attention drawn…
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Easter Flowers in Poland
Mass Rocks
Friar Solanus Mary takes us on a trip through history and Donegal County in Ireland to visit four Mass Rocks. In this piece, I want to tell you of a…
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Mass Rocks