Franciscans in the Ukraine Friar Maryan Melnychuck writes about life in the friary in Kremenchuk.I will never forget the morning of February 24, 2022. At 04:53 a.m. I was awakened…
Jesus Takes Up the Cross We take responsibility for our Earth Meditation Just as Jesus embraced his burden, we lift up our burdened world. In 2020, 30.7 million people were…
Jesus is Condemned to Death The innocent suffer for the sins of others Meditation We were present in the Creator's mind and heart, even before these ancient soils and waters…
The following is excerpted from a booklet prepared by the Franciscan Friars Conventual JPIC commission and a combined adaptation from a Catholic Climate Covenant (CCC) parish resource (from the Archdiocese…
For more than fourteen years, the Conventual Franciscan community in Kremenchuk, a city in the Poltava region of central Ukraine, has been caring for the homeless, the poor and needy.…
Brazil’s Black Awareness Day Highlights Indigenous Peoples Friar Erick G. Marin Carballo OFM Conv. lives with other religious and laity who are part of his itinerant team. Their shared life…