Prayer

“This year will be different” is the pledge we make to ourselves each year when Lent looms before us like a desert we must cross to get to Easter. Perhaps your using some of the resources we suggested…

Fr. Bruno Kremp, OFM, meets John Paul II At 75, Fr. Bruno Kremp, OFM, is yearning to try out retirement, but you wouldn’t know it to look at him.  Tall and lean, in his 47th year as…

St. Anthony comes through again in this story sent to Friarworks Co-director Colleen Cushard from one of our own Franciscan friars, Br. Ed Gura, OFM. Dear Colleen, After sharing a recent ‘St. Anthony’ story with my mother, she…

Excerpt from, Lent With the Saints: Daily Reflections, © Greg Friedman, OFM Joshua 5-9a, 10-12; Psalm 34:2-3,2-5,6-7; 2; Corinthians 5:17-21; Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 ‘Saint Paul Writing His Epistles’ by Valentin de Boulogne (1618-1620) Public Domain…

Charlton Heston as Moses in ‘The Ten Commandments’ Excerpt from, Lent With the Saints: Daily Reflections, © Greg Friedman, OFM Exodus 3:1-8a, 13-15; Psalm 103: 1-2, 3-4, 6-7,8,11; 1 Corinthians 1:1-6, 10-12; Luke 13:1-9  …

Excerpt from, Lent With the Saints: Daily Reflections, © Greg Friedman, OFM Genesis 15:5-12, 17-18; Psalm 27: 1, 7-8a, 8b – 9, 13-14; Philippians 3:17-4:1; Luke 9:28b-36 ‘Abraham’s Journey’ by Jozsef Molnar (1880) Public Domain…

Excerpt from, Lent With the Saints: Daily Reflections, © Greg Friedman, OFM Deuteronomy 26:4-10; Psalm 91:1-2, 10-15; Romans 10:8-13; Luke 4:1-13 Author’s Note: The Old Testament readings for the Lenten Sundays in all three cycles…

Today as I started out on my walk, I crossed our half acre field pulling my rosary (a red beaded rosewood rosary) from my pocket to begin walking.  It was all intact.  I crossed two roads and toddled…

At the Shrine, we are praying that your Lenten path will be one marked by growing closer to Our Savior.  We will have daily inspirations on our Facebook page.  Franciscan Media…

Pope Benedict XVI has declared a Year of Faith to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the start of the Second Vatican Council, which ran from 1962 to 1965, and calls on Catholics to renew their faith and the…