Roving Reporter #44 – Handmaids Evangelizing OysterFest ( 06min) >>> Play

Friar Anthony catches up with Sr Ann Marie of the Handmaids of the Immaculate to discuss the Handmaids latest apostolate, evangelization in the world.

Ave Maria!

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Roving Reporter #45 – Sr Ann Marie explains the life of the Franciscan Tertiary Handmaids of the Immaculate ( 10min) >>> Play

Friar Anthony sits down with Sr Ann Marie to discuss the life of the Franciscan Tertiary Handmaids of the Immaculate, its foundation, charism, and future to evangelize the world for the Immaculate. Ave Maria!

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Roving Reporter #46 – Paul and Michele Carter discuss their apostolates as Franciscan Tertiaries of the Immaculate ( 06min) >>> Play

Fra Cyprian caught up with Paul and Michele Carter, Franciscan Tertiaries of the Immaculate (FTI), to discuss their apostolates of bringing the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Ave Maria!

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St. Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-231) Feast Day: November 17th

from a letter by Conrad of Marburg, spiritual director of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary:

Elizabeth was a lifelong friend of the poor and gave herself entirely to relieving the hungry. She ordered that one of her castle should be converted into a hospital in which she gathered many of the weak and feeble. She generously gave alms to all who were in need, not only in that place but in all the territories of her husband’s empire. She spent all her own revenue from her husband’s four principalities, and finally she sold her luxurious possessions and rich clothes for the sake of the poor.

Twice a day, in the morning and in the evening, Elizabeth went to visit the sick. She personally cared for those who were particularly repulsive; to some she gave good, to others clothing; some she carried on her own shoulders, and performed many other kindly services. Her husband, of happy memory, gladly approved of these charitable works. Finally, when her husband died, she sought the highest perfection; filled with tears, she implored me to let her beg for alms from door to door.

On Good Friday of that year, when the altars had been stripped, she laid her hands on the altar in a chapel in her own town, where she had established the Friars Minor, and before witnesses she voluntarily renounced all worldly display and everything that our Savior in the gospel advises us to abandon. Even then she saw that she could still be distracted by the cares and worldly glory which had surrounded her while her husband was alive. Against my will she followed me to Marburg. Here in the town she built a hospice where she gathered together the weak and the feeble. There she attended the most wretched and contemptible at her own table.

Apart from those active good works, I declare before God that I have seldom seen a more contemplative woman.

Before her death I heard her confession. When I asked what should be done about her goods and possessions, she replied that anything which seemed to be hers belonged to the poor. She asked me to distribute everything except one worn-out dress in which she wished to be buried. When all this had been decided, she received the body of our Lord. Afterward, until vespers, she spoke often of the holiest things she had heard in sermons. Then, she devoutly commended to God all who were sitting near her, and as if falling into a gentle sleep, she died.

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Homily #121129 ( 10min) Play– Fr. George preaches on this feast of all the saints and blesseds of the Franciscan orders, who faithfully lived out their vows by following the Rule of St. Francis. May they inspire and encourage us all to follow in their footsteps. Ave Maria!

Mass: All Saints of the Franciscan Ord. – Feast – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: sir 44:1, 10-15
Resp: psa 24:1-2, 3-4, 5-6
Gsp: mar 10:17-21

Audio (MP3)

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The life of S. of God Hugh of Digne, Confessor, First Order (1285) for the Franciscan Saint of the Day for Mar 10. Hugh of Digne was a forceful preacher against the vices of court. He rejected an offer to be the preacher of King Louis IX. Miracles and prophecy were attributed to him.
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Reflection is on the religious life, what is it?
tertiaries are religious, but do not take the three vows, but follow a rule with equivalnt virtues
Lay people should follow example of religious, pursuing perfect holiness

For more on S. of God Hugh of Digne
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_of_Digne

Also on Youtube: https://youtu.be/i91SjgnzBnY

Read by Fr. Ignatius Manfredonia, FI from Marion Habig’s ‘The Franciscan Book of Saints’ Revised Edition, Franciscan Herald Press, ISBN: 978-0819907516

Playlist of Franciscan Saints: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TxcAETrU_k&list=PLejh_e0-LN4wErRczZGry4TXytCZFiLCm

Ave Maria!

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