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Wear Orange

Tomorrow is National Gun Violence Awareness Day. Thousands of people will wear orange throughout the weekend to honor survivors of gun violence and to remember all those who have been…

A Franciscan’s Way of the Cross – Part 1

As I sat in one of the wooden choir stalls of the chapel where St. Francis received the stigmata on, the sacred wounds of the poor and crucified Christ, I…

Pope Francis at a wooden cross at the border between Mexico & the U.S. in Ciudad Juarez in 2016 (Photo by friar Charles McCarthy)

Walking Together

In his message for the 109th World Day of Migrants and Refugees (September 24, 2023), Pope Francis states that we must "be a community ready to welcome, protect, promote and…

Invisible

(Based on a true story) "This poem/reflection is based on a true experience that one of our men from our parish had in crossing the border. He is a man…

Jesus Christ is Risen

Our faith gives us hope for new sources of life Meditation Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for the first things have…

Lamentation of Christ, headstone on Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb, Croatia

Station 14

Jesus' Body is entombed We wait with eager longing for the glory of God Meditation The hope and light of the world has been laid to rest in a tomb,…