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Second Station

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…

The Agony in the Garden (Stations of the Cross in Ghana, photo by friar Don Halpin)

First Station

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…

Completion of Franciscan Social Theatre Project for Ukrainians

Light Dispelling Darkness A follow up training for Franciscan Social Theatre’s new facilitators was held 2-6 February 2023 at the Franciscan Friary in Kalwaria Pacławska, on the Polish-Ukrainian border.Friar Stefano…

Introducing an Ecological Way of the Cross

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…

Super Bowl Party

Super Bowl LVII took place on Sunday, February 12. The friars at our house of formation in San Antonio, Texas, hosted a party and watched the Kansas City Chiefs defeat…

Saint Josephine Bakhita

Josephine Bakhita was born in the Sudan around 1869. Kidnapped by Arab slave traders when she was about seven years old, for many years Josephine was bought and sold, treated…