The following letter, between two saints , illuminates the importance of preparing well for Christmas. Let us prepare with prayer, charity, awareness of our brothers and sisters, and thankfulness of God’s creation. +++++++++++++++++++ Winter, 1224 My Dear Sister Clare, How kind of you to ask how you can help the brothers in Assisi prepare for Christmas while I […]
Archives for 2012
Happy Thanksgiving!
Here is a Thanksgiving reflection from the Franciscan Monestary of the Holy Land. Whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him. – Colossians 3:17
Mount La Verna
Our newly forming Secular Franciscan group in Charlottesville, Va, led by the Holy Spirt, joyfully announces our official name. Mount La Verna Fraternity! Here is some background about Mount La Verna: is an isolated mountain hallowed by association with Saint Francis of Assisi, situated in the centre of the Tuscan Appenines, and rising about 4000 […]
What is ours to do.
The following short refections help introduce particularly Franciscan and Catholic approaches to the decision-making process each of us undergoes in an election season. Given their brevity, these pieces are not intended to address the complexity of the issues, but rather to provide broad parameters for use in our discernment of “what is ours to do.” […]
Happy Feast of St. Francis
On October 4th, the Church celebrates the Feast of St. Francis! Francis of Assisi was a poor little man who astounded and inspired the Church by taking the gospel literally—not in a narrow fundamentalist sense, but by actually following all that Jesus said and did, joyfully, without limit and without a sense of self-importance. Serious illness […]