Wear Orange
Tomorrow is National Gun Violence Awareness Day. Thousands of people will wear orange throughout the
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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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A Franciscan’s Way of the Cross – Part 1
As I sat in one of the wooden choir stalls of the chapel where St.
What’s Your Hobby?
A few years ago, someone asked Friar Valentine Jankowski, ‘What’s your hobby?’ Fr. Valentine thought
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