An invitation to prayer and ecological conversion.
This year we celebrate the Season of Creation as we mark the Eight Centenary of the Canticle of the Creatures written by Saint Francis in 1225.
Our brother Fr Brendan Scully died peacefully on Saturday 30th August.
Liam Kelly OFM writes that to be a Franciscan Friar means living and proclaiming the Word of God.
Our brother Louis Brennan OFM went home peacefully to God on 12th August.
A Conference to Mark the 800th Anniversary of the Death of St. Francis of Assisi (Durham University, April 2026). A Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals.
Philip McMahon OFM was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Tom Deenihan in his parish church in Navan, Co. Meath, on 22 June. He preached this homily when celebrating his "First Mass" in the same church the following day.
Liam Kelly OFM recalls the Irish Friars who gave their lives for the faith.
Philip McMahon, who is soon to be ordained a priest, was delighted to meet the newly elected Pope Leo in Rome.
In an historic first for the friars in Ireland and Britian, one of their number reached his100th birthday in May.
