Prayer

Daily prayer to be said during the Coronavirus Pandemic Click image to download a PDF of the prayer. Loving God, Your Son, Jesus Christ, traveled through towns and villages “curing every disease…

“There was the key in the pocket of the cassock!” This miracle took place in the year 2015, while I was working as a seminarian on pastoral work experience at Christ the King Cathedral in the Roman Catholic Diocese…

St. Francis looks out over the valley of olive trees near the San Damiano church in Assisi, Italy. Celebrating Francis during a pandemic Although we can’t gather in large groups this year, friars around the Province of St.…

Our family relies on St. Anthony Peace Be With You! This is a story of how Saint Anthony came through with a lost object once again. My family is scatterbrained so we are always calling on poor Saint Anthony…

St. Clare, founder of the second order of Franciscans St. Clare of Assisi was not simply a follower of Francis, she was a formidable, resolute, devout and loving saint whose life centered on this essence of human identity. She and…

“I believe in you and love you!” My roommate lost his glasses on the weekend. Yesterday we spent most of the day looking through the apartment trying to find them. I then said, “Don’t worry I’m going to pray…

The Clares at prayer in the Monastery of St. Clare On June 24, 2020, we celebrated the 30th anniversary of the founding of our Cincinnati monastery. We began 30 years ago because three Poor Clares in three different…

“This volume of poems is dedicated to, among others, the city of Assisi,” Fr. Murray Bodo writes of his newest book, Teaching the Soul to Speak (Tau Publishing). The book’s last section contains poems inspired by Murray’s 43 years…

Masks in place, Fr. Mark Soehner and Br. Jerry Beetz offer St. Anthony Bread on the Feast of St. Anthony of Padua. A virtual feast Br. Chris Meyer played an integral role in the day’s festivities.…

Or did he find me? My story is somewhat long, but it felt right to share it now. I am Catholic and was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. I moved away to the Washington DC area shortly after I…