A Rising Tide Lifts All the Boats (Reflection from the student friars’ 2019 JPIC Summer Experience)
As friars minor, our call to “minority”, or being “lesser”, brings us to a new
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"The Lord gave me some brothers."
–St. Francis of Assisi, Testament
Conventuals speak in the name of something greater than ourselves. We are not a collection of individual voices, but a chorus harmonizing for the advancement of the Kingdom. Francis understood the men who came to follow him as a gift from the Lord; he received and celebrated that gift! The friars’ life in fraternity is the heart of our charism and exists as our primary mission. Community life, in the Franciscan vision, is an end in and of itself.
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FRIAR CASIMIR CYPHER OFM CONV. – MARTYR OF HONDURAS
On June 25, 1975, Friar Casimir Cypher OFM Conv. drove his borrowed pickup into the
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