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Junipero Serra and the renewal of mission

The superior of the Order of Friars Minor discusses the sainthood cause of Blessed Junipero Serra, who will be canonized in September during #PopeFrancis' trip to the United States. Full story: http://wp.me/p5DZKA-u

Posted by Catholic News Service on Monday, August 3, 2015

Presentation on Blessed Junipero Serra

The Press Office of the Holy See was the scene Monday morning for the presentation of a Day of Reflection on the life...
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Monday, April 20, 2015

Press Conference for the presentation of the Day of reflection on Blessed Junipero Serra. Watch LIVE now!
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Monday, April 20, 2015

Pope to canonize the Apostle of California on 23 September during visit to US

Roman Catholic triumphalism? A failure to respect national/ethnic differences and identity.
The new saint Fray Junípero and America’s true identity

Reviving Hispanic and Catholic memory within a more complete vision of the origin of the United States enriches history and today’s perspective of the life of the nation. It also helps break down separation walls that distinguish between what is “Anglo” and what is “Hispanic”, between the Protestant and the Catholics tradition, between the United States and Latin America. It shows a deeper communion between Churches and a greater solidarity between nations across the continent, as requested in the post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation “Ecclesia in America”. And it allows millions of Hispanics living in the United States to free themselves from a mentality that sees them as people living like foreigners, on the margins of North American society, barely tolerated and often discriminated and persecuted. It allows them to recognise that they are in continuity with those Hispanics who populated vast areas of the South-West, the centre and the East of what is now US territory, for centuries. They really can say “We are Americans”, without having to abandon their best cultural and religious traditions. Their situation requires serious, deep, reasonable and fair migration reform and respect for the rights of migrants and their families. The big mistake of thinkers such as Samuel Huntington, was associating North American identity with all that is Anglo-Saxon.

In Love with Christ

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Evangelization

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From Stratford Caldecott: A New Secularism: The Secular Franciscan Order

The New Scot Might Like This

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Friar Alessandro

Friar Alessandro, Voice from Assisi
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My mother would be eager to buy his CD to support him and because she likes that sort of music. Apparently one Franciscan I know does not like his singing...





More 'traditional' versions of the Our Father in the Roman rite.

The Franciscans of Halifax (Documentary Demo)

What the New Scot has been up to...


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Dom Mark Daniel Kirby, OSB: Saint Francis and the Liturgy (via NLM)

Great Houses Make Not Men Holy: Mendicant Architecture in Medieval Oxford

by Jim Knowles

Great Houses Make Not Men Holy: Mendicant Architecture in Medieval Oxford from Jim Knowles on Vimeo.

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Two Mendicant Orders

Godzdogz: Quodlibet 34 - The differences between Dominicans and Franciscans?

Rorate Caeli: An Interview with Monsignor Gherardini

It is said that you are the last representative of the school of “Roman theology”, which was made famous by Cardinal Palazzini or by the dear and regretted Monsignor Piolanti. Is your voice as a theologian an isolated voice in Italy, or do you see in some university, some magazines, theologians who share your preoccupations and your analysis of the situation?

I do not know how far I may be considered as an epigone of the glorious Roman School. Even the illustrious names which you refer to belong to a descending stage of this school. After the Second Vatican Council, the voice of this school, increasingly weak, could still be heard through two Roman academies (the Pontificia Accademia di Teologia and the Pontificia Accademia San Tommaso d’Aquino), the reviews Divinitas and Doctor Communis, and the Thomistic Congresses. Today, if risking oneself still to be aware of it, it is just an isolated voice, admired by some, but more often despised and scorned. This is how I perceive the situation. However, listened to or not, it still resounds, and if you recognize the timbre of the Roman school in my voice, I am pleased.

Woody writes in the comments:

From Fr. H's blog it appears that "The Ecumenical Council Vatican II: A Much Needed Discussion" is available in English and someone had already sent a copy to Fr. Hunwicke, whose posts on it show its evident great value.

Another reader of that blog and I have corresponded and it will be of interest to Rorate readers to know that the book is being published by the publishing arm of the Franciscans of the Immaculate. My correspondent told me that he had contacted the US bookshop of the FI and was told that they had sold out of it here in the US. I am planning to call first thing tomorrow to put in my order for one copy from the next shipment to hit our shores.

One can also email the FI in Italy, but I have yet to hear back from them in response to mine.

From Fr Hunwicke's Liturgical Notes: Canon of S Peter's calls for review of Vatican II

Perhaps, amid all the press and hubbub of Easter, you might have noticed, with the Sovereign Pontiff at S Peter's, the 85-year old but sprightly figure of Mgr Canon Brunero Gherardini ... whose many distinctions include that of being a consultor of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, and a professorship in the Pontifical Lateran University. Monsignore published last year Concilio Ecumenico Vaticano II: Un discorso da fare. This has now appeared in an English Translation as The Ecumenical Vatican Council II A MUCH NEEDED DISCUSSION. It is published by the Casa Mariana Editrice, who offer not an ISBN number but an email address: cm.editrice@immacolata.ws

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NLM: Holy Week with the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, Castello

I believe this is where the New Scot has gone.

Benedict XVI's Address to the Franciscan Family
"Attract to Christ Men and Women of All Ages"

Father Cantalamessa Speaks on Franciscan Charism
"Looking at Christ with the Eyes of Francis"

Fr. Stravinskas seemed to be trying to stir up some trouble in the comments section for this post at NLM, but his first and second attempts at leaving a comment have been deleted. He used to be listed as a contributor to the blog, but I don't see his name anywhere now. He referred to the low Masses being celebrated (simultaneously) by the Franciscans of the Immaculate, instead of a single (conventual) Mass, and asked whether this should be the norm. His comments were deleted probably because they were pointless and off-topic, and provocative. While I agree that the ideal is a single conventual Mass (even if the question about Mass intentions and stipends seems to be unresolved), that thread was not the appropriate place to discuss it. The Orthodox, as far as I know, would be baffled by the Latin practice of having multiple low Masses, even though it is something traditionalists tend to accept as being "traditional" and praiseworthy. I don't know if this practice can be proscribed for monasteries and religious communities. I don't see how multiple Masses at your typical parish could be reduced to one. And there aren't enough priests to make the division of parishes into smaller communities possible.

An Interview with Rev. Peter M. J. Stravinskas IgnatiusInsight.com

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