Dear Friends, May the Lord give you peace!   I’m convinced of the power of photography in promoting vocations and recently I came across ‘A Photographer’s Prayer’ by an unknown author in the Irish Catholic: “Oh, god, as I bring my subject into focus, let me remember that I’m creating treasures for some family.   …

Pray for Priests, Sisters and Brothers

Warm New Year Greetings!

“When it comes to promoting vocations in the Church it all begins with an encounter with God.”

The Friars are to praise the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit

Dear Friends, May the Lord give you peace!   The Constitutions of the Order of Friars Minor article one reads as follows: The Order of Friars Minor, founded by St. Francis of Assisi, is a fraternity.   In this fraternity the friars follow Jesus Christ more closely under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit;  through …

D.ear Friends, May the Lord give you peace on this very special Feast Day – the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi.   Today we celebrate the Feast of our Founder, inspiration and guide.   All that Francis wanted for us his followers was to live  the Gospel and to imitate Jesus. “Francis was always with Jesus, …

Dear Friends, May the Lord give you peace!   I presume that some of your reading this have a favourite place to pray.   It may be in your room, office, kitchen, garden, in some beautiuful forest or by a lake or river.   When St. Francis began to take his life with God seriously his favourite place …

Dear Friends, May the Lord give you peace!   Today Franicscans are encouraged to find new means of evangelising.   One Friar that has taken to the highways and byways and in many different countries  is Friar Alessandro;  spreading the ‘Good News’ with his beautiful singing voice.   This is just a little taster of what Alessandro …

Dear Friends, May the Lord give you peace!   Pope John Paul II proclaimed St. Francis the patron saint of ecologists.   The Canticle of the sun gives us some insights why St. Francis was given this great title.   This translation (an extract), is taken from Franciscan Spirit by Frances Teresa OSC. Praise and glory, honour and …