Archive for September, 2009

May the Lord give you His peace! A very interesting moment in friary life happens when a house with one television also has one friar who is an ardent Boston Red Sox fan and another friar who is a strong New York Yankees fan. It gets real interesting when the Yankees are playing [...]

May the Lord give you His peace! Yesterday, the Franciscan family celebrated the Feast of the Stigmata of St Francis, recalling the events in La Verna when Francis was marked with the wounds of the crucified. Francis was enamored with the great charity of God revealed in the Incarnation as well as the [...]

May the Lord give you His peace!  My office is in the Catholic Student Center at Syracuse University.  These last few weeks have seen students returning to campus and new students moving in to their residence halls on campus.  I recently passed through Charleston, SC with a host of students of the College of Charleston [...]