… for the Poor – Page 2 – Franciscan Voice

"Lily in the Snow" painting by Karla Aurora Kozach (find out how you can enter the painting sweepstakes at katerishrine.org/news-events)

Celebrating St. Kateri Tekakwitha

The Saint Kateri Tekakwitha National Shrine and Historic Site is located in Fonda, New York. We are celebrating Saint Kateri's Feast Day on July 14 and through July 16. On…

Friar Joe Krondon and volunteers celebrate the milestone outside Assumption Food Pantry and Soup Kitchen.

A Million Pounds of Food

Assumption Food Pantry and Soup Kitchen, Syracuse, New York One million pounds is a lot of food distributed in less than 10 years. But at Assumption Food Pantry and Soup…

Hospice Care

Helping People Face Death with Confidence in God’s Love One patient described the impact of news that he was going to die from his cancer as "the waters streaming out…

“There’s a great fit between the parishioners and the spirit of St. Francis and it shows in their outreach.”

Feeding the Hungry in North Carolina

Providing Nourishment for Bodies and Souls “…For I was hungry, and you gave me food…” For more than 10 years, the people of Blessed Sacrament Parish in Burlington, North Carolina,…

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,…