For I Was Hungry – Part Two

Friar Juan Zuniga Lopez was completing theological studies in San Antonio, Texas, in 2018 when he met Fr. Phil Ley and was introduced to Posada Guadalupe. Here is part two…

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Caring for Our Common Home

Installing solar panels at Holy Cross Retreat Center in Mesilla Park, New Mexico Interfaith Power and Light (IPL) interviewed Friar Tom Smith, Director of Holy Cross Retreat Center, for an…

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For I was Hungry

In 2018, Friar Juan Zuniga Lopez was completing theological studies in San Antonio, Texas, when he met Fr. Phil Ley and was introduced to Posada Guadalupe. Friar Juan shares his…

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United in Prayer for the Ukraine

Conventual Franciscan Federations United in Prayer The General Delegate for Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation (JPIC), Friar Michael J. Lasky, invites all of the Conventual Franciscan Federations to pray…

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Dante and the Franciscans – Part Ten
Dante holding his Divine Comedy flanked by Petrarch and Giotto. From a fresco by Benozzo Gozzoli (1452) located in the apse of the Church of San Francesco in Montefalco, Italy

Dante and the Franciscans – Part Ten

Beginning with the Florentine Friar Accursio Bonfantini, who in 1318 held a public reading of the Divine Comedy in the Cathedral of Florence for the city’s ruling lords, several Franciscans contributed to…

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A Lenten Meditation
(Detail of painting by El Greco, 1580)

A Lenten Meditation

Our Seraphic Father, St. Francis, meditated a great deal on Our Lord’s Passion, as we read in the Franciscan Sources. In a previous post we read about the Holy Wounds…

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