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November 21, 2024/

How did St Francis pray and how might we pray? St Paul tells us in Romans 8:26, the Apostle Paul says: “Likewise the Spirit helps us in…

October 9, 2024/

I was recently admitted to the Order of Secular Franciscans during a celebration of the Transitus, the memorial of the passing of St Francis form this…

May 21, 2024/

When I was growing up in the USA, fraternity meant only one thing. The word was used to describe the male student associations on various university…

January 3, 2024/

Francis wanted his friars to be called “minores”, which can be loosely translated as lesser people, or smaller people. For Francis is was obvious that this…

November 12, 2023/

This is what I want. This is what I seek, this is what I desire with all my heart. Francis had heard while attending Mass a…

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October 20, 2023/

It is presumptuous, arrogant, crazy, strange and pathetic for a Liverpool-based husband, father of five, and headteacher to begin, in middle age and seemingly out of…

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