November 29th is an important day for Franciscans. We celebrate All Saints of the Franciscan Order. This day commemorates when Pope Honorius approved the Rule of St. Francis in 1223. Our day began with a schoolwide reconcilliation service. We had some loving and merciful confessors, I just wish more of the students took us up [...]

I have so much to be thankful this year and I was grateful to be able to share it with my family. The most exciting thing was a new member of the Foley Family, my new nephew Flynn Patrick! I met him while I was home and he is beautiful!
On Thanksgiving morning, I attended [...]

After school yesterday I drove back to Massachusetts for Thanksgiving. I got caught in traffic and it took close to 2 hours to go 5 miles. It was a long day and I got home at about 2 am!
peace and prayers,
friar Matt

This was a busy weekend. After school on Friday, I traveled down to DC for the wedding of two of my dearest friends, JP and Christine. The weekend rush hour traffic was pretty bad so I was late picking up the priest who witnessed their vows and we were both late for the rehearsal. After [...]

IT WAS A FULL FULL DAY!
Classes went well today. We covered the story of Joshua and the Promised Land for the Freshman Scripture class. I created a Jeopardy review game for my sophomores. During my 8th period, the department chair did an impromptu observation of my class and he said he was pleased it was [...]

What a powerful evening!
The young men from the FYM program prepared a dinner (well there parents did) for residents of Carrington House. Carrington house is a residential treatment program for me who have substance abuse addictions. Carrington House provides education, job training and counseling to help these men put their lives in order. It was [...]

Our grades were due and the first quarter is over! It flew by and has been a good experience. I have realized how much I still have to learn about trying to teach and cover the material. In my freshman class, I am a bit behind and I hope to make up for it the [...]

To commemorate this Feast of All Saints Day, we had a school wide liturgy. Fr. Vincent, our vocation director, presided and preached. He spoke of the saints as those who join us, inspire us and lead us into communion with God. I love this feast, it is one of my favorite feasts and anytime mass [...]