May the Lord give you peace! During this journey of Lent, we the Church accompany the elect in these last stages of their journey towards the sacraments of initiation. We are also accompanying candidates for full communion in their preparation to enter the Catholic Church. At the same time of year, [...]
May the Lord give you His peace! We have finished our meeting here in Madrid. I was supposed to be on a plane to the USA this afternoon, but the snow around Philadelphia canceled my flight. So, I have an extra day in Madrid. Yesterday, we broke from our meeting in [...]
May the Lord give you peace! I offer you greetings from Madrid. I am here with several friars from different countries to help plan our Order’s participation in World Youth Day 2011 here in this lovely city. These last few days, we friars have been working hard with initial planning. The [...]
May the Lord give you peace!
According to the Vatican Information Service, Pope Benedict XVI spoke on St. Francis of Assisi today at his general audience. Below, I share with you the synopsis of the pope’s remarks from the Vatican Information Service:
FRANCIS OF ASSISI, A GIANT OF SANCTITY
VATICAN CITY, 27 JAN 2010 (VIS) – Benedict [...]
Dear Friends,
May the Lord give you His peace! While at present, we Conventual Franciscan Friars do not have a mission in Haiti, there are over 1,500 religious men and women serving the Church in that country where three-fourths of the population is Catholic. This afternoon, Brother Paul Bednarczyk, CSC of the National Religious Vocation Conference [...]
May the Lord give you His peace!
If you have not done so yet, please help with the relief effort in Haiti. You can go to this web-site to help.
https://secure.crs.org/site/Donation2?df_id=3181&3181.donation=form1
Peace and all good!
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May the Lord give you His peace! With Sunday’s celebration of the Solemnity of the Baptism of the Lord, the Church comes to the end of the Christmas season. The second reading at Sunday’s liturgy from Paul’s Letter to Titus reminds us. “When the kindness and generous love of God our [...]
May the Lord give you His peace! During this second week of Advent, we have two Marian celebrations: the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception (December 8 ) and the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe (December 12). The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe is a personal favorite of mine. As we [...]
May the Lord give you His peace! We friars and postulants gathered in St. Francis of Assisi Friary in Staten Island, NY on Thursday afternoon to celebrate those friars who are celebrating jubilees, i.e. 25, 40, 50, 60 or 70 years of religious profession as friars or that many years since ordination to the [...]
May the Lord give you His peace! At 2:30 PM this afternoon (Friday, November 6, 2009), I, like many citizens of the United States, observed a moment of silence to remember the victims of yesterday’s tragic shooting in Ft. Hood, TX. While so many citizens and members of the US military throughout the [...]
