Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
Saint Kateri Tekakwitha is widely seen as a bridge between Native American and European cultures.
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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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Remembering Friar Casimir Cypher
On June 25, 1975, Friar Casimir Cypher OFM Conv. drove his borrowed pickup into the
Rite of Beginning Fraternity
On July 5 at the Franciscan House of Studies on Chicago’s North Side, we welcomed
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