- 2025 Season of Creation | Peace with Creation August 28, 2025 - This year, the Labor Day holiday falls on Monday, September 1. For Christians throughout the world, this day is also the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, the first day of the Season of Creation, which lasts until October 4, the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi. As a Franciscan parish, our … Read More 2025 Season of Creation | Peace with Creation
- Choosing Love | Friar Reflections | 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time August 17, 2025 - Saints of God… …the Lord be with you! If there is a consistent theme in all three of today’s readings, it is the role of a prophet and how a prophet is treated. In today’s first reading from the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah (38; 4-6, 8-10) we read that Jeremiah is thrown into a … Read More Choosing Love | Friar Reflections | 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time
- Turning the World on its Head | Friar Reflections | Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time August 10, 2025 - “Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1) This line opens the second reading this Sunday and it’s one of the most profound theological definitions of faith in all of Scripture. You see, we live in a world obsessed with what is visible. Proof. Data. Measurement. … Read More Turning the World on its Head | Friar Reflections | Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
