DC Franciscans join for Transitus '16
The DC area Transitus Celebration was held at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land Commissariat on Quincy Street in northeast Washington. The Transitus is an annual Franciscan remembrance of the evening in October 3, 1226, when our Father St. Francis of Assisi made his "transitus" ("pass over") from death into new life. The feast of our patron is celebrated on October 4 as the sunset determined the 'new day' in the medieval world.
Our brother Steve Wright, OFM Cap., appears to have encountered an unexpected visitor below.
Postulants get a New Friary to call Home
During the weekend of September 24, Philadelphia Auxiliary Bishop John McIntyre
presided over a Vespers service and house blessing
at the official erection of the new Padre Pio Friary in Philadelphia, PA.
Postulants meet the Poor Clares
We received some shots of our postulants in from Kip Ledger, OFM Cap., and from Jim Mongovan, OFM Cap., the directors for this stage of Capuchin formation for our Province. The 7 postulants (candidates) are in their first year of Capuchin fraternity. They share their life, prayer and work at Padre Pio Friary in Philadelphia, PA, which has recently changed location to a new residence in the city.
The postulants were recent visitors to the Langhorne Poor Clare community near Philadelphia. It gave us a chance for these group shots with Br. Jim (left) and together with the Poor Clares below.
ALVERNO: A Thin Place
Fr. Lester Knoll, OFM Cap., has authored this reflection on the story of Alverno, a place for solitude in our Capuchin Province of St. Augustine. Located in Salisbury, PA, it offers the environment to encounter the Lord in its silence, its beauty and its natural surroundings.
Br. Francisco Highlighted at JCU
Our brother, Francisco Lopez, OFM Cap., was recently featured in John Carroll University's magazine. Francisco is an alum of the Cleveland university which he attended while a student in the Capuchin Formation Program of Borromeo Seminary in Wickliffe, OH.
The article focused on four alumni who have pursued a vocation to Religious Life. Francisco traces his call to Capuchin life to a card he received from a friend. It was from the Seraphic Mass Association and included a prayer to St. Anthony. Francisco looked at the back of the card and heard about Capuchins for the first time. The rest is history:
One of eight children, Br. Lopez, who was born in the Dominican Republic, spent 14 years there before coming to the U.S. to live in Massachusetts. That's where his grandmother first came years previously and where he went to high school.
"I've always wanted to go to a Jesuit school," Lopez says. "My father sent me to a private school in the Dominican Republic, but it wasn't a Catholic school."
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