Santa visits the St. Anthony Kitchen in Negril, Jamaica. Merry Christmas! Dear Friends and Benefactors, Provincial Minister Fr. Mark Soehner We can’t say thank you enough for your gifts of support, trust, and prayers. The best way would…
Read More Fr. Murray Bodo reads The Christmas Story, from the Gospel of Luke. We Franciscan friars want to share with you a beautiful story. It was written a long time…
Read MorePrepare your heart for Our Lord You are invited to join us at the St. Anthony Shrine for a new Advent series entitled Leave a Chair for Christ. The three Wednesdays during Advent, we’ll gather from…
Read MoreOne of the many nativities from around the world at ‘A Franciscan Christmas’ at the Christian Moerlein Event Center “May the coming Advent Season be a time of joyful anticipation & hope. –SJB Provincial…
Read MoreFor unto you a child is born ~ Bring your friends and family to ‘A Franciscan Christmas’ in historic Over-the-Rhine in Cincinnati. Enter the courtyard of St. Francis Seraph Church on the corner of Liberty and Vine to…
Read MorePray through Advent with St. Clare of Assisi. Our novena to St. Clare this summer was very powerful and many people received answers to their prayers. Continue praying with this powerful saint with this year’s pocket-size Advent prayer booklet, Advent…
Read MoreSanta didn’t disappoint the children at St. Anthony’s Kitchen. While family and friends were back home freezing in Cincinnati, I was roasting my earlobes off on the hot and sunny Friday before Christmas. Kids and grown-ups were gathering to…
Read MoreA memory of Christmas Past ~ Obie and Mae Parker! They gave me a great opportunity to demonstrate Christmas hospitality at an age in my young life when I had little notion of such a thing. What was under…
Read MoreWait in Joyful Hope ~ Dear Friends, We are happy to bring you the 2017 pocket book of daily reflections for Advent. This year, we honor our Blessed Mother with Wait in Joyful Hope, created by our friends at…
Read MoreThe St. Anthony Shrine choir We need a Savior to be born into our world and into our hearts. ~ Guardian Br. Norbert Join Shrine Guardian Br. Norbert Bertram, OFM, and the Franciscans at the National…
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