We would like to share the following reflections on the death penalty in hopes that others will hear the call to stop the cycle of violence and preserve the sanctity of ALL human life from conception to natural death. Today we live in the myth of redemptive violence. Kill the troublemaker and the problem will be […]
Archives for 2012
Who are you O Lord?
The following slide show is from Sister Ilia Delio’s PowerPoint presentation, Who are you, Lord (Franciscan view), during the July 2012 Quinquennial Congress. See: https://www.quinquennial.org/p/pp-slides.html
St. Clare – 800th year Anniversary.
St. Clare was one of the early followers of St. Francis of Assisi. In 2012 the Franciscan family celebrates the 800th anniversary of Clare’s decision to leave her family for a life of poverty and ministry. Contemporary accounts glow with admiration of her life in the convent of San Damiano in Assisi. She served the […]
August 2nd – Feast of Our Lady of the Angels & The Pardon of Assisi
History of the Portiuncula It was in the night in the year of our Lord 1216, Francis was immersed in prayer and contemplation, in the small church of the Portiuncula, when all of a suddent the church was filled with a brilliant light and Francis saw above the altar the Christ clothed in light and […]
782 years ago today.
782 years ago today, on July 16, 1228, Pope Gregory IX canonized Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone. St. Francis had died just two years before his canonization, on the evening of October 3, 1226, as he was singing Psalm 141.