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Serving with Our Gifts

Some time after a retreat on personality types and preferences, I was talking with one of the FVMs, who shared a similar Myers-Briggs personality type.  She was very engaged in working with students trying to address the problems in the community and in community organizing.  I tended to associate people working for justice issues [...]

2024-02-15T12:22:54-05:00June 21st, 2023|

Mistakes Happen

Mistakes happen all the time. It’s hard to forget though when you are someone like me who has expectations for everything to be perfect. Nowhere else embraces mistakes like the St. Francis Inn. You can’t predict what will happen each new day; medical emergencies, volunteers canceling, or fights occurring in the yard. When things [...]

2024-02-15T12:21:28-05:00January 15th, 2023|

Be Fully Present

One of the truly blessed and unexpected lessons I've learned so far is how much the communities around me live in the moment. I have the opportunity to serve many different groups of people from individuals with intellectual disabilities attending day programs to people experiencing homelessness receiving meals and clothes from different outreach locations.  [...]

2024-02-15T12:21:28-05:00November 15th, 2022|

The Franciscan Community of St. Francis Inn

In November of 2021, Commonweal Magazine published a special issue with the heading "The Varieties of Religious Community Today" in which a collection of articles profiled the charism, ministry, and community life of a variety of religious communities throughout the United States. Commonweal did an admirable job of featuring a wide range of lay [...]

2024-02-15T12:21:28-05:00October 15th, 2022|
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