Formation materials from the 2017 Annual Regional Meeting

Posted By Teresa Redder, on June 15th, 2017

As promised, here are the materials from the four presentation given at our regional gathering in March:

Letters of St. Francis to the Persons He Loved (Justin Carisio, OFS)

Letters of St. Francis of Assisi St Francis of Assisi’s Letter to Brother Leo

The Bardi Dossal (Lee Potts, OFS)

Cheat sheet Bardi Dossal image Five episodes contemplation cards

The Wolf of Gubbio: Francis Teaches Conflict Resolution (Frank Urso, OFS)

Gubbio Peace Prayer Wolf of Gubbio booklet

Prayer Before the Cross: Meditation on the San Damiano Cross (Kathy Agosto)

San Damiano Cross session opening prayer with John’s Gospel Part 1 –
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Daily Reflections by Father Francis - June 2017

Posted By Kate Kleinert, on June 1st, 2017

 

June 2017

O loving one

bear in mind your poor children for whom, without you,

their one and only consolation, there is little comfort…

they still .. tearfully cry out to you:

O father, place before Jesus Christ, son of the Most High Father,

His sacred stigmata; and show Him the signs of the cross on your hands, feet, and side,

that He may mercifully bare His own wounds to the Father,

and because of this the Father will ever show
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Greetings from Father Francis - June 2017

Posted By Kate Kleinert, on June 1st, 2017

St. Katherine Drexel Regional Fraternity Regional Spiritual Assistant St. Francis of Assisi Friary 1901 Prior Road Wilmington, Delaware 19809

tel: (302) 798-1454 fax: (302) 798-3360 email: pppgusa@gmail.com website: skdsfo.org

June 2017

Dear Sisters and Brothers in St. Francis,

The Lord give you His peace!

The future of the Church can and will come, even today, only from the strength of those who have deep roots and who live on the basis of the sheer fullness of their faith. It will not come from those who just offer formulas. It will not come from those who always
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From Your Regional Formation Director - June 2017

Posted By Kate Kleinert, on June 1st, 2017

I would like to wish you all a happy Pentecost, a time for a new conversion.

A little bit of History. Some of us may know that Pentecost began as a Jewish celebration of the wheat harvest in the late spring. It gradually became customary to celebrate the feast 50 days after the Passover. The Jewish scholars calculated that when their ancestors left Egypt, they arrived at Mount Sinai approximately 50 days later, this gave an additional meaning to the feast. It
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From the Heart of our Minister - June 2017

Posted By Kate Kleinert, on June 1st, 2017

Some of you have heard about my friend Christy. We have been penpals for more than 30 years. We have shared much laughter and many tears in those letters and grew to love each other as sisters. Christy is serving a sentence of life plus 25 which was handed down when she was 17. I started writing to her a few years later. She is now in her 40’s and has spent more than half her life in prison. Last year I was able to go see her at the Iowa Correctional Institute for Women. It was a brutal
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