From the monthly archives:

December 2009

If You Want to Cultivate Peace, Protect Creation

December 31, 2009

Pope Benedict XVI’s World Day of Peace Message for 2010 is: If you want to cultivate peace, protect creation. Our Holy Father pleads, “We can not remain indifferent to what is happening around us.”
This pastoral challenge is for all believers, but is clearly spoken to world leaders and to all of us who are concerned for [...]

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Fill Up With Snow

December 29, 2009

Robert Frost’s poem Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening is delightfully suited for a Franciscanized World winter reflection:
Whose woods these are I think I know His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow…
The only other sound’s the sweep Of easy wind [...]

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Good Tidings of Great Joy from the Franciscan Sisters

December 24, 2009

Peace and all good this Blessed Christmas from all the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity. Like St. Francis’ prayers on the night of the first Greccio Nativity enactment, our heart-felt prayers for you and your loved ones are ones of joyful exultation. Â
Finally, the day of joy has drawn near, the time of exultation has come. From many different places the Sisters [...]

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Order the Latest in Franciscan Vocation Posters

December 21, 2009

It’s a simple message. The world needs you. God calls you. We invite you. It’s a call for a permanent commitment of love for God and His people. It’s so totally Franciscan building the church today not using brick or mortar, but with hands made for loving service.
And we need you. Help us distribute this Franciscan Sisters of [...]

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How Las Posadas is Observed in a Franciscan Way

December 17, 2009

Las Posadas, a reflective reenactment of Mary and Joseph’s search for an inn, originated in Mexico in 1538. Catholic Missionaries were responsible for this creative catechesis. The Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity adapt this joyful observance as a prayerful way of being present with their sick and suffering Sisters in preparation for Christmas. Â
Here is a short sketch on this festive Advent experience:

Traveling [...]

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Look for Our Lady of Guadalupe Mosaic

December 12, 2009

Today, December 12, 2009, the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity celebrate with all the Americas the special patronage of Our Lady of Guadalupe. In 1945, Pope Pius XII declared the Virgin of Guadalupe “Queen of Mexico and Empress of the Americas”. Pope John XXIII broadened her intercession when he invoked her as “Mother of the Americas” in [...]

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