Interfaith Perspectives on Ecology

On January 20th, the DC Abrahamic House hosted a virtual gathering to explore what various faith traditions teach about humanity's responsibility to care for creation. Secular Franciscan Ms. Kelly Moltzen,…

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Friar Field Note No. 1
Photo from NCR article by Melissa Cedillo (Courtesy of Josh Burg)

Friar Field Note No. 1

This past November, an NCR EarthBeat Article “More than 250 people fast in solidarity with climate hunger strikers in DC” featured our very own: friar Cristofer Fernández, OFM Conv. In…

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A Clarion Call

A new mural now graces the exterior walls of the Pump House Studio at the Mount Saint Francis Retreat Center in Mt. St. Francis, Indiana. It announces the launching of…

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Fellowship With Other Creatures

"What God has united, man must not divide." In the first reading of the final Sunday of the Season of Creation 2021, we hear the story of God creating the…

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Friar Field Journal No. 2
friars Cristofer, Joshua, and Roberto in front of the Dana Adobe

Friar Field Journal No. 2

Tucked away in the Arroyo Grande Valley on ancestral Chumash land, the Franciscan novitiate is a 13-acre property located in a coastal ecosystem surrounded by live oak woodland, coastal chapparal,…

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Season of Creation

In this Season of Creation, let us bring our common concerns to the Creator. St. Francis grieved at sin and brokenness in all of creation, human and non-human. He was…

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