Die Kraft des Gebets
Im Franziskanischen Exerzitien- und Spiritualitätszentrum in Prior Lake, Minnesota, wird das Sakrament der Krankensalbung üblicherweise im Rahmen einer der eucharistischen Liturgien gefeiert, und zwar zumeist…
Spendergeschichte – Diakon Don Kunkel
Br. Bob Roddy, OFM Conv. und Mary Ann Reuther posieren neben einer Bank, die dem Gedenken an den verstorbenen Diakon Don Kunkel gewidmet ist, einem langjährigen Exerzitienteilnehmer bei Franciscan Retreats und…
Handabdrücke auf unseren Herzen
I live in a city named after one of the great Franciscan saints, Saint Anthony. San Antonio was named after Saint Anthony over 300 years ago when the Franciscans made…
Eine Reise nach Hause
My journey back to the Catholic Church was not straightforward but came unexpectedly through a series of events where the Holy Spirit urged me to reconnect with God and the…
Frieden in der neuen Normalität
2022 is the year when everything changed. Some are calling it the “New Normal,” but there is nothing normal about social distancing from your own mother. It was May 2022,…
Versammelt uns
Encounters often lead to relationships, and sometimes these relationships are life-changing. In 1977 I had a Franciscan friar, Daniel Manger, as a student in my English Composition class and from…
Ökologische Transformation – Die Hoffnung von Laudato Si'!
In 2018 the Vatican held an international conference to celebrate the third anniversary of the publication of the encyclical Laudato Si’! Many ecological experts and theologians from various parts of…
Synodalität der Cafés
When I was a teenager, my uncle, who worked in the circulation department of a morning newspaper, asked me to cover a route for him temporarily. The route was more…