Advent Resources
Advent is a time of preparation and waiting. We anticipate eagerly the birth of Our
for Community
…for Community
"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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The Power of Silence
Like St. Maximilian Kolbe, Conventual Franciscan Fr. Placido Cortese directed a Catholic publication, in his
Crozier for Bishop Michael T. Martin
Friar Joseph Dorniak designed a crozier for the Most Reverend Michael T. Martin OFM Conv.,
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Inquire of a Friar
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