Tuesday, December 09, 2025

Do Not Look Down Upon Or Judge Ill

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  All the Lesser Brothers are to wear poor clothes and, with God's blessing, let them mend them with pieces of sackcloth or some other m...

Franciscus Christificatus by FRANCIS THOMPSON

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  Franciscus Christificatus by FRANCIS THOMPSON Thief that has leaped Heaven's star-spiked wall! Christ's exultant bacchanal! Wine-s...

December 14th: Feast Day of St. John of the Cross

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  December 14, 2025 Feast Day of St. John of the Cross "Suffering is more fruitful than pleasure. It is in suffering and in stillness t...
Saturday, December 06, 2025

Cum Grande Humiitate!

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  Blessed Francis had a deeper veneration for the Nativity of our Lord than for other festivals, and he said, 'Since our Lord has been b...

Portiuncula Indulgence

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Wednesday, December 03, 2025

The most beautiful music you've never heard. — Second Sunday of Advent Gregorian Chant

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Monday, December 01, 2025

"Come to the Quiet" Retreat Means Living For God

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  Portiuncula Hermitage Jerusalem, Ohio The desert is a place of spiritual revolution, not of personal retreat. It is a place of inner prote...

The Miracle Of The Vineyard In Rieti

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  Tiers Vino outside Assisi, Italy Blessed Francis was staying near the church of St. Fabian in Rieti. A number of cardinals, accompanied by...
Sunday, November 23, 2025

If You Truly Love Your Roman Catholic Faith Then You Absolutely Must Watch This Video!

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Saturday, November 22, 2025

Concerning the Conversion of a Soldier

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  There was a certain strong soldier who had won many victories and later became a Friar Minor. And when soldiers laughed at him because he ...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

By Your Holy Cross You Redeemed The World

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  With his companions Francis now went to live in an abandoned hut near Assisi, where they lived from hand to mouth according to the rule of...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Monroe County, Ohio - Begging For Stones

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  Monroe County, Ohio Catholics are being asked to collect all their cut sand stones and drop them off at the Portiuncula Chapel next to the...
Monday, November 17, 2025

Prayer For The Portiuncula (In Latin)

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  Domine Deus, sacellum Portiunculae congregationi populi tui destinavimus. In nomine Iesu omnibus spiritibus discordiae vel malitiae cuiusc...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

Willingly Enduring Suffering, Insults, Humiliations, and Hardships

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  "Above all the graces and gifts of the Holy Spirit which Christ gives to His friends is that of conquering oneself and willingly endu...

A Fool And A Madman

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  When St. Francis' relatives saw him, they covered him with insults, calling him a fool and a madman, and hurling stones and mud at him...
Friday, November 14, 2025

The Blessed Virgin Mary Appears Over The Portiuncula Chapel's Altar In Ozark, Ohio

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Last Summer, during our weekly Saturday Rosary, one of the ladies praying with us in the chapel asked, "Am I the only one here who sees...

Our Sisters The Flowers

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  Francis told the brother gardener not to plant vegetables everywhere, but to leave a part of the ground for hardy plants which in time wou...

When We Are the Bride, Brother, And Mother Of Christ

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  A person is the bride of Christ when their faithful soul is united with Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit; we are His brothers we do the wil...
Sunday, November 09, 2025

Portiuncula Chapel In Ozark, Ohio (Adjacent To The Immaculate Conception Cemetery)

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Saturday, November 08, 2025

The Portiuncula Hermitage and Retreat Center "Come to the Quiet"

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Tuesday, November 04, 2025

Woe To Those Who Insult You And Refuse You Alms

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  If people insult you and refuse to give you alms, you should thank God for it, because you will be honored before the judgment-seat of our...

Saint Mary of the Portiuncula Chapel (Adjacent to the Immaculate Conception Catholic Cemetery in Ozark, Ohio)

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  As a sign of holy poverty and humility, blessed Francis decreed that the churches of the friars were to be small and their houses to be bu...

Shelter Under A Rock Of The Mountain

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(Photo taken at the Portiuncula Franciscan Hermitage and Retreat Center in Ozark, Ohio) Francis said: "When the Lord withdrew into soli...
Monday, November 03, 2025

Rise Immediately To Pray

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  "If the servant of God, as may happen, is disturbed in any way, he should rise immediately to pray and he should remain in the presen...

"Son" Bathing

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  Exposition of the Holy Eucharist: “ It is like sitting out in the sun. You may not feel the effect at the moment, but a little while late...
Sunday, November 02, 2025

My God And My All!

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  "Looking up to heaven and raising his hands, he prayed with intense fervor and devotion, saying: 'My God and my all!' And he ...

Virtue And Vice

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  W here there is Love and Wisdom, there is neither Fear not Ignorance. W here there is Patience and Humility, there is neither Anger nor An...

Prone To Evil

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  Tomb of the Unborn Child Franciscan University of Steubenville Take care lest, when the dung of worthlessness has been placed at your root...
Saturday, November 01, 2025

The Seraphic Order

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  "The prophecies say that the day will come when the religious will throw off their habits and move from their poor hermitages in the ...