The following video explores a conversation between Brother Leo and St. Francis.
This week of Prayer for Christian Unity
The traditional period in the northern hemisphere for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is 18-25 January. Those dates were proposed in 1908 by Paul Wattson to cover the days between the feasts of St Peter and St Paul, and therefore have a symbolic significance. In the southern hemisphere where January is a vacation […]
St. Francis and the issue of war.
What if we did what we say? As followers of the little poor man of Assisi, we profess to try, with God’s grace, to live our lives according to our Rule and the Gospel. To follow Christ, as Francis did, to the best of our ability, according to our state in life. I might ask myself when […]
Why is the SFO called ‘Secular’?
The early lay followers of St. Francis were probably known as the Order of Penance. That title expressed a conversion of life on the part of its members. Like Francis of Assisi, the members of the Order of Penance tried to carry the spirit of the gospel into their daily lives in the midst of […]
History of the Franciscan Crown Rosary
The Franciscan Crown (or Seraphic Rosary) is a rosary consisting of seven decades in commemoration of the Seven Joys of the Virgin, namely, the Annunciation, the Visitation, the Nativity of Jesus, the Adoration of the Magi, the Finding in the Temple, the Resurrection of Jesus, and the Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin. The Franciscan Crown has been called the Franciscan Rosary, the Seraphic Rosary or the Rosary […]