Our Sister Frances Vass celebrated her 50 Years of entrance into the Poor Clare form of Life . Congratulations

Pope Francis Asks Us to Pray for Creation on September 1st

400 Friars in one place. What could go wrong...?

Celebrating the Feast of Saint Clare

Our Transitus with the Franciscan Secular Order , August 10, 2019

Summer Visitors

Our Summer visitors, Father Raymond T. Lennon SVD, Father Robert OFM Capuchin and postulants,
Father Frank Walter OFM and Father John Gallagher Cssr. So Glad to see you all.

Eight Hilarious Religious Jokes

July 7th to July 13- workshop at St. Bonaventure University for Poor Clares

The Day My Life Changed Forever - Congratulations

Around the Monastery June 30, 2019

Father Martin O'Reilly's celebration of his silver Jubilee with the Poor...

Tyler Perry Gives Powerful Speech Of Motivation As He Accepts Ultimate I...

Poem for the Eucharist

Gorge Herbert's poem  LOVE For the Eucharist today  . Simone Weil loved this poem though she never became a Catholic

Love bade me welcome. Yet my soul drew back

                              Guilty of dust and sin.

But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack

                             From my first entrance in,

Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning,

                             If I lacked any thing.

 

A guest, I answered, worthy to be here:

                             Love said, You shall be he.

I the unkind, ungrateful? Ah my dear,

                             I cannot look on thee.

Love took my hand, and smiling did reply,

                             Who made the eyes but I?

 

Truth Lord, but I have marred them: let my shame

                             Go where it doth deserve.

And know you not, says Love, who bore the blame?

                             My dear, then I will serve.

You must sit down, says Love, and taste my meat: You must sit down, says Love, and taste my meat: compare Luke 12:37. "Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when he commeth, shall find watching: Verily, I say unto you, That he shall gird himself, and make them to sit downe to meat, and will come foorth and serve them." (Authorized Version, 1611) Compare also to the second stanza of Herbert's poem "Faith": "Hungry I was, and had no meat: / I did conceit a most delicious feast; / I had it straight, and did as truly eat, / As ever did a welcome guest."

                             So I did sit and eat.

Source: George Herbert and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Poets  (W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1978)