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Franciscans International: Statement on the human rights impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
As we, the entire staff of Franciscans International, are confined but healthy in our respective homes in Switzerland, the USA, and France, we are made more aware every day of our privileged situation, despite the unusual and uneasy circumstances in which confinement...
Message for the Month of Ramadan 2020
To our Muslim brothers and sisters throughout the world: As-salaamu ‘alaykum! Peace be with you! On behalf of the Special Commission for Dialogue with Islam of the Order of Friars Minor, it gives me great pleasure once again to extend our greetings to you as you...
Protect Migrants and Refugees during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Slowing the spread of COVID-19 requires that everyone be included in prevention and protection strategies, especially the most vulnerable, including migrants and refugees. This pandemic is a public health crisis that brings home how interconnected we are. It is our...
A Message of Hope from the Mayor of Assisi
Stefania Proietti, the mayor of Assisi (Italy) wrote the following Easter letter, a beautiful message of hope, to the residents of Assisi: Today more than ever I feel the need to reach out to you as we share a time that we never expected to face. An invisible enemy...
A Buried Treasure Revealed: The Book of the Conformity of the Life of Saint Francis to the Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Buried from the ordinary reader for 600 years, and available only to scholars, this hugely important work is now available for the first time in a modern language! Two decades ago, we saw the appearance of “Francis of Assisi: Early Documents,” a three-volume...
Do not be afraid; darkness has not conquered the light! | Easter Letter of the Minister General 2020
Do not be afraid; darkness has not conquered the light! [Cf. Mt 28:5; Jn 1:5] Easter Letter of the Minister General 2020 Dearest brothers and sisters, May the Living Christ give you peace! This year, the celebration of Easter will have as a backdrop a world...
Why ask Saint Camilla Battista of Varano for help in time of pandemic?
From a conversation with Mother Chiara Laura Serboli and the other Poor Clares of Camerino on the story of Saint Camilla Battista da Varano, martyr of the plague epidemic of the sixteenth century, published in L’Osservatore Romano of 2 April 2020: Historically during...
St. Francis heals a man from Llerda
In the city of Llerda in Catalonia a certain man called Juan, who was devoted to blessed Francis, happened to pass by one evening on the road where there was concealed a deadly ambush—not for him, actually, for he harbored no hostilities, but for another man who...
Cardinal Ouellet to the Poor Clares of Assisi: this is the hour of the contemplative life
Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, recently wrote to Mother Agnes, Prioress of the Proto-Monastery of the Poor Clares of Assisi. “The pandemic that confines us at home is your hour, the hour of the contemplative life that brings humanity...
The Holy Land: The Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in the times of Covid-19
“The community of the friars of the Sepulchre is made up of 11 brothers,” says Fr. Salvador Rosas Flores, Superior of the Franciscan convent at the Holy Sepulchre. “Despite the complete absence of pilgrims, we are keeping up our rhythm of prayer and fraternity. Our...
Coronavirus: Letter of the General Minister
TO ALL OF THE BROTHERS OF THE ORDER May the Lord give you peace! Over the course of these past more than three months since the discovery of the new Coronavirus, we have witnessed its progressive proliferation from one specific region in China to more than 115...
“I was in prison and you visited me”: Letter from a friar from Damascus
Here is the Lenten letter of Br. Bahjat Elia Karakach, guardian of the convent of Bab Thouma in Damascus. Dear friends, I am writing to you from prison. Here comes the Lenten season which helps us to convert through penance. A time when we are called to be close to...
US Franciscan News
Franciscans International: Statement on the human rights impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
As we, the entire staff of Franciscans International, are confined but healthy in our respective homes in Switzerland, the USA, and France, we are made more aware every day of our privileged situation, despite the unusual and uneasy circumstances in which confinement...
Message for the Month of Ramadan 2020
To our Muslim brothers and sisters throughout the world: As-salaamu ‘alaykum! Peace be with you! On behalf of the Special Commission for Dialogue with Islam of the Order of Friars Minor, it gives me great pleasure once again to extend our greetings to you as you...
Protect Migrants and Refugees during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Slowing the spread of COVID-19 requires that everyone be included in prevention and protection strategies, especially the most vulnerable, including migrants and refugees. This pandemic is a public health crisis that brings home how interconnected we are. It is our...
A Message of Hope from the Mayor of Assisi
Stefania Proietti, the mayor of Assisi (Italy) wrote the following Easter letter, a beautiful message of hope, to the residents of Assisi: Today more than ever I feel the need to reach out to you as we share a time that we never expected to face. An invisible enemy...
A Buried Treasure Revealed: The Book of the Conformity of the Life of Saint Francis to the Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Buried from the ordinary reader for 600 years, and available only to scholars, this hugely important work is now available for the first time in a modern language! Two decades ago, we saw the appearance of “Francis of Assisi: Early Documents,” a three-volume...
Recent #FriarFriday Reflections
#FriarFriday – My Call. Your Call?
I stayed in the seminary, became a priest, a scientist, a professor, and a writer.
#FriarFriday – Refugees vs. Migrants
As much as we’d like to think that there’s a simple solution, such as a wall, the problem in Central America has been building for some time now, and there are no easy solutions.
#FriarFriday – It is Right and Just
With each other we ask before we thank; with God, we need to thank before we ask.
#FriarFriday – Dignity for Los Desconocidos
On August 19, a group of Franciscan friars, religious sisters, and like-minded lay people gathered to “plant a cross” near the spot where a migrant drown.
#FriarFriday – Politics & Religion: Head, Gut, and Heart
The two things Mom said we should never talk about in polite company, are still entwined passions.
#FriarFriday – the novices
A poem written by one of the Franciscan novices reflecting on his year in the novitiate.
Recent #FriarFriday Reflections
#FriarFriday – My Call. Your Call?
I stayed in the seminary, became a priest, a scientist, a professor, and a writer.
#FriarFriday – Refugees vs. Migrants
As much as we’d like to think that there’s a simple solution, such as a wall, the problem in Central America has been building for some time now, and there are no easy solutions.
#FriarFriday – It is Right and Just
With each other we ask before we thank; with God, we need to thank before we ask.
#FriarFriday – Dignity for Los Desconocidos
On August 19, a group of Franciscan friars, religious sisters, and like-minded lay people gathered to “plant a cross” near the spot where a migrant drown.
#FriarFriday – Politics & Religion: Head, Gut, and Heart
The two things Mom said we should never talk about in polite company, are still entwined passions.
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Pope is finally able to bless the faithful in person
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Pope Francis on Sunday looked visibly joyful at being able to bless the faithful in person, even if the number was reduced and, of course, they were separated from each other by safe distances. Aft…
Holy Land Franciscans in the time of plagues...https://custodia.org/en/news/…
The Franciscans who sacrificed their lives in the time of the plague
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Franciscan history has in its pages very many names of religious who sacrificed their lives to remain at the side of the sick in times of epidemics. 407 religious have died of the plague since 1619 to...
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Franciscan News on Facebook
St. Peter's Square open.
https://aleteia.org/2020/05/…
Pope is finally able to bless the faithful in person
aleteia.org
Pope Francis on Sunday looked visibly joyful at being able to bless the faithful in person, even if the number was reduced and, of course, they were separated from each other by safe distances. Aft…Holy Land Franciscans in the time of plagues...https://custodia.org/en/news/…
The Franciscans who sacrificed their lives in the time of the plague
www.custodia.org
Franciscan history has in its pages very many names of religious who sacrificed their lives to remain at the side of the sick in times of epidemics. 407 religious have died of the plague since 1619 to...🙏🌹❤️🙏