Our Foundation Day: Called to Brotherhood Like St. Francis
Today is our Foundation Day — the anniversary of our founding by Mother Mary Angelica, PCPA.
Adorable Sacred Heart of Jesus, which so greatly loved men and has not spared anything for them, unite with the Immaculate Heart of Your loving Mother, so full of merciful love, and together be my help, my comfort and my salvation. Amen.
A Foundation Day Gift from the SITH Sisters
Here is a ‘sweet’ gift from our neighbors, the SITH Sisters. Deo gratias!
800 Years After St. Francis’s Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela
This year, 2014, is also the 800th anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi’s pilgrimage from Italy to Santiago de Compostela in 1214.
In St. Francis’ day, pilgrims called the Milky Way the Way of St. James as it led travelers across Europe to the holy pilgrim site in northern Galicia Spain.
“It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.” — St. Francis of Assisi
For those of you making the pilgrimage this year you can earn a special certificate called a ‘Cotolaya’, in addition to the traditional ‘Compostela’, by visiting the Church of San Francisco. St Francis was also the founder of the St Francis church and convent in Santiago de Compostela. And remember to say a little prayer for us little brothers of St. Francis who came to be on this great feast day of St. James the Apostle — the same spirit of Lady Poverty and holy knighthood that first sent St. Francis on pilgrimage still sends us today.