May the Lord give you His peace!  Here in Syracuse this week, the friars and sisters welcomed this year’s newest group of Francsicorps volunteers (www.franciscorps.org).  There are ten of them this year.  Most of them just graduated college and they are giving a year of their lives to Gospel Service to the poor while living [...]

May the Lord give you His peace!  It was only a week ago last Saturday, when I last saw him.  I had stopped by his friary to visit with another friar and there was Herman, sitting at the kitchen table finishing a bowl of oatmeal.  Only a few months short of his 90th birthday, he [...]