He was a gifted scholar, teacher, administrator, and spiritual guide, but Fr. Juniper Cummings is best known as a Friar whose life was filled with Franciscan joy. That spirit…

May 25th Our Lady of Consolation Feast Day The title of Our Lady of Consolation, or Mary, Consoler of the Afflicted, comes from the Latin Consolatrix Afflictorum and is the…

With 246 friends, retreatants and supporters of Franciscan Retreats and Spirituality Center present, the 2017 Franciscan International Award was presented to VEAP (Volunteers Enlisted to Assist People) on May 11.…

Celebrating Mount St. Francis A Tradition of Serving Spiritual Needs In the late 1800s, the Conventual Franciscan Friars were given 400 acres of land in southern Indiana, not far from…

by Friar Ian Bremar, OFM Conv. (Ed. Note: May 1st, the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker, was the inaugural Religious Brothers Day. If you didn’t get a chance on…

Combining a joyous Franciscan spirit with a missionary’s vision of the world, Friar Joel Burget OFM Conv. served God’s people in remote areas of Africa and in the heart of…

Thank you for sharing our Lenten journey. As we continue through Holy Week let us keep one another in prayer, that the Holy Spirit may lead us all through a…

  Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative of St. Paul, Minnesota, received the award in 2016.   For 59 years the Franciscan International Award Dinner has been an opportunity for retreatants and…

Dear Friends, Today we begin our Lenten journey. For each of the 40 days we will offer a brief Franciscan reflection – many by our Friars, some from Pope Francis,…