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WE GET LOVE, TO GIVE LOVE, AND RETURN TO LOVE

... We love, because he first loved us (Jn :19). In fact, God wants to lavishly expend His love upon us. God wants to live within us as we live in love with Him: God is love and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him (1Jn4:16). The love between the persons of the blessed Trinity is to be our model in this love. As St. Francis said, Praise Him and bless Him, thank and adore Him, the Lord Almighty, in Trinity and Unity. (ER XXI: 2). ...

Carolyn Seal2024-08-28T18:53:15-04:00September 2nd, 2024|Categories: From the Newsletter|0 Comments

Celebrating the Gift of the Stigmata – August 20-23, 2024

Regional Spiritual Assistants and Regional Formation Directors from across the country, and even Guam, gathered for a centenary celebration of the Stigmata in Villa Maria PA.

Miriam Kennedy2024-09-01T18:07:17-04:00September 1st, 2024|Categories: 20th OFS Quinquennial Congress 2022, CNSA, Formation|0 Comments

The Gospel Through a Franciscan Lens – 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Fr. Christopher

God speaks new life and new possibility in every hour.

Miriam Kennedy2024-08-31T10:21:52-04:00August 31st, 2024|Categories: CNSA, Homilies|0 Comments

Be Love to Young People

“Love isn’t something we feel, it’s something we do.” We’ve all heard this quote time and time again, but what does it really mean? It simply means we can’t just talk about loving one another. Our actions, words, and intentions need to express love genuinely and concretely. That’s not easy to do when we speak of loving our younger generation. Not because we don’t have hearts for young people, but because it’s difficult to love them if they’re not in our presence. If there aren’t younger Catholics in our midst—how can we show them we love them? ...

Carolyn Seal2024-08-21T15:01:53-04:00August 26th, 2024|Categories: From the Newsletter, FYYA|0 Comments

The Gospel Through a Franciscan Lens – 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time – Fr. Christopher

"Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life."

Miriam Kennedy2024-08-25T13:54:59-04:00August 25th, 2024|Categories: CNSA, Homilies|0 Comments

The Gospel Through a Franciscan Lens – Feast of the Assumption – Fr. Christopher

We reprise Father's homily of August 15, 2021 for this week. Father celebrated his first Mass 48 years ago on the Feast of the Assumption.

Miriam Kennedy2024-08-19T10:30:37-04:00August 19th, 2024|Categories: CNSA, Homilies|1 Comment

Apostolate: Love in Living Deeds

“If a brother or sister has nothing to wear and has no food for the day, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,” but you do not give them the necessities of the body, what good is it?” (James 2: 15,16.) It could also be said, if we see a river of people wandering without protection, all their savings stolen, preyed upon by criminals and officials alike, huddled against our national border, and we say to them, “peace and all good,” and do nothing to help them obtain food, shelter, and safety, what good is that?

Carolyn Seal2024-08-15T20:07:43-04:00August 19th, 2024|Categories: From the Newsletter, JPIC|0 Comments

Reﬂecting on Mary, Our Mother and Model

Think back to your profession and recall the words that you said as the Minister held your hands and you made your profession promise. I, by the grace of God, renew my baptismal promises and consecrate myself to the service of his Kingdom. ...

Carolyn Seal2024-08-08T14:55:56-04:00August 12th, 2024|Categories: Formation, From the Newsletter|0 Comments

The Gospel Through a Franciscan Lens – 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Fr. Christopher

Beneath all our hungers is our hunger for God. Jesus is God’s offer to satisfy that hunger. The faith and trust Jesus is inviting us to, is not an intellectual assent to dogma, or doctrine. The Discourse of the Bread of Life is not about propositions. It’s about Jesus.

Miriam Kennedy2024-08-12T09:06:49-04:00August 10th, 2024|Categories: CNSA, Homilies|0 Comments

A Mutual Embrace

(This article originally appeared in the TAU-USA Summer 2024 Digital Issue #112)

by Fr. John De La Riva, OFM Cap.

President-in-turn, National Conference of Spiritual Assistants

I write to you as I am gazing on a nicely framed picture depicting the familiar […]

Carolyn Seal2024-08-01T14:36:25-04:00August 5th, 2024|Categories: CNSA, From the Newsletter|0 Comments