Monroe County, Ohio Catholics are being asked to collect all their field stones and drop them off at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Cemetery on Ozark-Eddy Bridge Road so that we can duplicate this Portiuncula Chapel located at the Franciscan University of SteubenvilleFrancis set to begging for stones with which to restore the church of San Damiano. He called to the passers-by: "Whoever gives me one stone will have one reward; two stones, two rewards; three stones, a treble reward!"
Saint Francis of Assisi
Legend of the Three Companions
CHAPTER VII
Saint Francis of Assisi
Legend of the Three Companions
CHAPTER VII
Please note : We are begging our Catholic brothers and sisters in Monroe County, Ohio to round up all their field stones and dump them into the woods next to the Church of the Immaculate Conception Cemetery on Ozark-Eddy Bridge Road (in the direction of the large white house towards Woodsfield). These stones will be used to erect the Portiuncula Chapel.
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Stone-gathering! What a neat idea! Unfortunately, being in California, I am pretty far away for stone carrying. (But I did set up a regular small donation under my real name: Betty Leaver from San Juan Bautista. Please consider those few dollars my "stones.")
ReplyDeleteAll the best wishes for a blessed 2010!
Thank you, dear sister, for your kind donations. You are being remembered before our Eucharistic Lord.
ReplyDeleteYes, part of the concept here is that once built, everyone in Southeastern Ohio who donated stones will feel a personal, intimate part of the Chapel (just as each one of us are the stones which come together to make up Mother Church).
Pax Et Bonum!