Protect Us From All Anxiety

Anxiety – 1. a state of being uneasy, apprehensive, or worried about what may happen; concern about a possible future event 2 Psychiatry an abnormal state like this, characterized by a feeling of being powerless and unable to cope with threatening events, typically imaginary, and by physical tension, as shown by sweating, trembling, etc 3 [...]

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St. Francis Prays With Us – Vision In the Blessed Sacrament Chapel

My Secular Franciscan Fraternity has a Franciscan Crown Rosary prayer apostolate.  Every Wednesday night, a few of us meet after Mass in our Blessed Sacrament Chapel.  The picture of St. Francis on the left hangs on the center of the back wall and faces the Tabernacle.  Last week it started getting dark earlier.  The wall [...]

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Mount La Verna Leaf & The Stigmata of St. Francis

On September 17, Franciscans will celebrate the Feast of the Stigmata.  On my last trip to Italy, our group took a trip to Mount La Verna – the site of St. Francis receiving the stigmata (wounds of Christ.) 
It was October and the leaves were turning.  We walked up a long tree lined road from the parking [...]

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