by Jim McIntosh | Jul 9, 2013 | Franciscan |
[fb_import_img url=”https://jmc.me/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/fb_import_intg_1374858291_22787-1-1.jpg” class=”lightbox” ] Gathered for their July Definitorium meeting, or Tempo Forte, the General Defiitorium of the Order today elected Fr. Julio...
by Jim McIntosh | Aug 28, 2011 | Franciscan |
I went down to New York City yesterday for the solemn profession of two friars: Steve DeWitt and Dan Horan. Solemn profession is the last step in the six-year formation process of a new Franciscan friar. It at this time at the friars vow to live the Rule of St....
by Jim McIntosh | Oct 4, 2008 | Franciscan, Spirituality |
This story “The Language of the Soul’s Night” is from Eloi Leclerc’s The Canticle of Creatures (now out of print) as quoted in St. Francis and the Foolishness of God by Marie Dennis, Joe Nangle, OFM, Cynthia Moe-Lobeda and Stuart Taylor. I read...
by Jim McIntosh | Aug 21, 2008 | Franciscan |
Before I joined the friars, I was a member of the St. Anthony of Nagasaki Secular Franciscan Fraternityin Washington, D.C., and as a member of that Fraternity I learned the story of the 26 catholics martyred in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1597. Twenty-three were Franciscans...
by Jim McIntosh | Aug 2, 2008 | Bolivia, Franciscan, Status |
We made a great roadtrip last weekend. It was intense, involving 30 hours of driving over three days and traveling the legendary “most dangerous road in the world” in Noryungas, Bolivia. We left Cochabamba after lunch on Friday and traveled up to the city...
by Jim McIntosh | Apr 7, 2008 | Bolivia, Church, Cochabamba, Franciscan, Status |
Well, I left tonight for the meeting of the lay brothers of the Bolivian Franciscan province. Left, that is, in that I walked over to the Cochabamba bus terminal. This afternoon, when I went over to buy my ticket, they weren’t selling bus tickets to La Paz...
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