Thoughts from your Regional Formation Director – August, 2015

Posted By Teresa Redder, on August 2nd, 2015

Dear Sisters and Brothers,

Last month our fraternity, St. Maximilian Kolbe had a Day of Recollection. Our speaker was Sr. Mary Frances OSC. The theme was “Rebuild My Church”

During this month of August we celebrate a few feast days starting with Our Lady of the Angels August 2nd “The Portincula”, then the feast day of St. Clare on the 11th and “The Assumption” on August 15th . Our Lady has a special place in our Franciscan way of life

It was the first time at least for me to hear someone give a talk about Clare beginning with Clare’s
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Daily Reflections from Fr. Francis - August 2015

Posted By Teresa Redder, on August 2nd, 2015

August 2015

(St. Francis of Assisi)

O truly the most Christian of men,

who strove by perfect imitation to be conformed

while living to Christ living, dying to Christ dying,

and dead to Christ dead, and deserved to be adorned with an expressed likeness!

(Your) most holy soul was released from the flesh

and absorbed into the abyss of divine light …

You were borne aloft straight to heaven …

(you) merited to enter the place of light and peace

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From the Desk of Fr. Francis

Posted By Teresa Redder, on August 2nd, 2015

August 2015

Dear Sisters and Brothers in St. Francis and St. Clare,

The Lord give you his peace!

As Franciscans we are called by God to love. This love is a total surrender to God, manifested in how we serve God in one another, even those who are not one of us (cfr. Mark 9: 38). Our availability to respond “yes” whenever we are called by God’s will depends on how much, little, or not we are attached, subject, and ultimately controlled by persons, places, things in our life. They become the “center” and the “focus” of
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