“I see each question, whether with a personal problem or something about scripture or theology as very important and when I am at my computer I often imagine the person to whom I am writing as if I were talking…
Read MoreOur Ministry of Presence at Northgate Mall in Cincinnati is going well. Here are a few of the stories. We began on Black Friday (which we re-named Brown Friday) with pretty good crowds. Our Ministry of…
Read MoreNativity at St. Anthony Shrine St. Francis would often meditate on the Poverty of the Incarnation and the great love God has for us. He is credited with popularizing the Nativity…
Read MorePraise God that Fr. Harold Geers, OFM, and the other friars survived. A survivor searches for a relative in Tacloban City on Leyte Island in the Philippines on Nov. 11, 2013, after the area was hit by…
Read MoreBr. Gabriel plays the piano at the St. Anthony Shrine. Br. Gabriel Balassone recently celebrated his Golden Jubilee and his 80th birthday. After 50 years as a friar, the calm and self-effacing Br. Gabriel says he most…
Read MoreHis Life Revolved Around People Sharing a memory of Fr. Noel William, OFM, Fr. Dan Anderson, OFM, prefaced it with, “He’s been pretty old for a pretty long time.” Of all the comments at Noel’s funeral on Tuesday…
Read MoreFr. Bruno Kremp, OFM, meets John Paul II At 75, Fr. Bruno Kremp, OFM, is yearning to try out retirement, but you wouldn’t know it to look at him. Tall and lean, in his 47th year as…
Read More(The latest update from Fr. Bert Heise, OFM, one of our retired friars living at St. Margaret Hall nursing facility.) My Good People! When I came to St. Margaret Hall in August of 2010, our Provincial Minister, Jeffery Scheeler, OFM, wrote…
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