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 […]
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 […]
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 […]