I got back to DC about 9 hours after leaving St. Bonaventures. On Saturday, I attended the wedding (another one!) of my dear friends Rick and Erin. It was a beutiful mass and reception. The love they felt for one another was palpable! I got chocked up at their first dance, when they chose [...]

It’s over. I am kind of sad yet grateful. It was a blessed experience. I had a presentation yesterday morning on Francis’ Spirituality of the Virgin Mary. This morning I have an oral exam for my Franciscan history class. Afterwards, I am hitting the road and heading south. More info will be forthcoming…..

Last evening, I returned to Olean, NY from a weekend in Mishawaka Indiana. Mishawaka (The Princess City) is the home of our Conventual Franciscan Novitiate. On Friday evening, 6 young men were vested by their Minister Provincials in “the habit of probation.”

Friar Chris, the provincial from California, spoke warmly and fondly of his own [...]

This weekend has been the celebration at. St. Bonaventure University’s patronal feast, ie, the patron saint of this school. Pope Leo XIII described Bonaventure as the “prince of the mystics.” He was a friar from the 13th century who wore many hats (including a red cardinals one!) He was a teacher, a priest/bishop and the [...]

No. It is a very easy and simple word. I know if you asked my mom, she would probably say it rolled off my tongue when I was a kid. It is the same way now with my nieces and nephew. It’s short, sweet and decisive. I wonder why now, I have a tough time [...]

On Thursday, the church invited us to rememember the great bishop and doctor, Irenaeus. He was a bishop in France and wrote prolifically, especialy against the Gnostic heretics. The Gnostics were kinda bad dudes/dudettes who thought that material things were evil and that you needed top-secret knowledge to be saved. It sounds kind of bizarre, [...]