Assisi on the Chesapeake Retreat 2025

The last weekend in June, Our Lady of the Angels Province hosted their third Assisi on the Chesapeake Retreat. Sixty young people gathered from Chicopee (MA), Atlanta (GA), Baltimore (MD),…

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Celebrating Blessed Giles

Each spring, Little Portion Farm (located in Ellicott City, MD)  hosts a celebration around the time of the Feast Day of Blessed Giles of Assisi on April 23. This year’s…

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A Vision of Inclusivity

Bishops around the United States began issuing tributes to Pope Francis soon after the news of his death on April 21, 2025. Pope Francis was 88 and in the 13th…

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Preaching to the Birds

This year is the 800th anniversary of Saint Francis' composition of The Canticle of the Creatures. The inauguration of this anniversary took place in Assisi on January 11, 2025. (Learn more…

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Beyond Tree Planting
At a school in Kenya, Friar Michael Lasky gives an introduction to Franciscan prayer as a means of engaging in JPIC work.

Beyond Tree Planting

A New Vision for JPIC in Kenya JPIC in Kenya is expanding beyond tree planting in schools and parishes to include ministry at a prison with child inmates and visits…

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