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 […]
The myth of redemptive violence
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 […]
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