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February 2016 February 2015 Volume 4. Issue 5 The Padre Pio Fraternity Secular Franciscan Order I love you this much! The Brother and Sisters of St. Francis Region St. Valentine’s Day “Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.” 1Cor.13:4-7 ~ In God’s eyes everyday is Valentine’s Day - a day of love. ~ Snowstorm Jonas causes our January Gathering to be cancelled. Fr. Steve Kluge, OFM Did you ever stop to think how Francis would Presenting react to misfortunes in the snow? Here is a story “A Gaze On the San Damiano Crucifix” from Francis of Assisi: The Saint. “One day Francis was walking half-naked Fr. Steve Kluge (pronounced Kloo-gee), through the forest, when he suddenly fell among originally from New Jersey, is a Franciscan robbers. When they asked him who he was, he friar currently serving in the Community of responded prophetically without fear, ‘I am the St. Francis parish. He enjoys holding the door herald of the great King! What is that to you?’ They on Sunday mornings greeting the “Saints of indignantly whipped him, and threw him into a God. “ He and Fr. Steve Patti were ordination snow-filled ditch, and insulted him saying, ‘Lie classmates, ordained on the same day in 2001. there stupid herald of God!’ When the brigands He is an excellent homilist, retreat master and departed, he jumped out of the snowy ditch joyfully, dedicated friar and we are very fortunate that and more energetically sang praises to the Creator he is going to be our February presenter at our of all. “ Gathering on February 28th. He composes See you at the February gathering! poems and reflections for the Sunday bulletin. ♥[1" ]♥ THE POPE’S PRAYER utilize as many of these works as we INTENTIONS FOR can. Lent 2016 commences on Wednesday, February 10 and ApostLates February culminates on Thursday, March 24. As we understand, Lent is the For CPO contact Maureen Universal: Care for Creation season of penance and prayer before Copan, OFS That we may take good care of Easter. It starts every year on Ash creation – a gift freely given – Wednesday and ends on Holy For Oak City Outreach cultivating and protecting it for Saturday, the day before Easter Contact Ellen Ferrone future generations. Sunday. Ash Wednesday 2016 falls on February 10, 2016, and Holy Evangelization: Asia For Hospitality Saturday 2016 falls on March 26, That opportunities may increase for 2016, - Franciscan Friar suggestions see Marie dialogue and encounter between the Roccoforte, OFS. Christian faith and the peoples of Franciscan Saints Asia. for February For Sunshine call Marge Zombek, OFS to have a Jubilee Year of Mercy and Lent 1 St. Veridiana. (benedictine visited by St. Francis in 1211). card sent to someone. How can we show others the mercy 1 Bl. Andrew of Segni, For info on JPIC & of God? We say that God is compas- 4 St. Joseph of Leonissa, priest Website see Sharon sionate, but we ignore the poor. We 6 Sts Peter Baptist, Paul Miki, and say that God loves us and has mercy Winzeler, OFS Comp.,martyrs of I and III Order. on us, but we hold grudges against 7 St. Colette of Corbie, virgin of II Order. our friends. Our actions need to Prayer Requests: authentically reflect God's mercy. 8 St. Giles Mary of St. Joseph I Order go to Susan Stamey The Corporal Works of Mercy are 10. Ash Wednesday found in the teachings of Jesus and 15 Transfer of the Body of St. Anthony of Ida Irwin, OFS does our give us a model for how we should Padua scrapbook. treat all others, as if they were 17 Bl. Luke Belludi, religious, I Ord. Christ in disguise. “Being filled with Our superb library is the love and mercy of Christ, we maintained by Maureen shall be stimulated to reach out to 19 St. Conrad of Piacenza, hermit, III Ord. Copan, OFS others in corporal and spiritual One day while hunting he ordered works of mercy,” the African attendants to set fire to some brush in order to flush out the game. The fire To add items to the bishops said. “Pope Francis invites spread to nearby fields and to a large Newsletter contact Frank E. us to ‘rediscover the corporal works of mercy: to feed the hungry, give forest. An innocent peasant was Peluso, OFS. imprisoned. Conrad confessed, saved drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, the man’s life and paid for the damaged welcome the stranger, heal the sick, property. Soon after this event, Conrad visit the imprisoned and bury the We are on the web: and his wife agreed to separate: she to a dead’.” “He urges us ‘not to forget Poor Clare monastery and he to a group Go to: the spiritual works of mercy: to of hermits following the Third Order support the doubtful, educate the / Rule. Prayer and penance were his http://ofscentralnc.org unenlightened, warn sinners, answer to the temptations that beset him. (All past newsletters comfort the suffering, forgive Conrad died kneeling before a crucifix. are on the website!) offenses, be patient to those who do us ill, and pray for the living and the 27 Bl. Sebastian of Aparicio, I Order dead’.” This lent is a perfect time to (Easter is on March 27th) ♥ ["2] ♥ Mother Teresa and Prayer Next Gathering Mother Theresa was once asked about her prayer life. February 28, 2016 The interviewer asked, “When you pray, what do you say to God?” The Catholic Community of Mother Teresa replied, “I don’t talk, I simply listen.” St. Francis of Assisi Leesville Rd, Believing he understood what she had just said, the interviewer next Raleigh, NC 27613 asked, “Ah, then what is it that God says to you when you pray?” Mother Teresa replied, “He also doesn’t talk. He also simply Formation listens.” In the LifelongEducation There was a long silence, with the interviewer seeming a bit Siena Center confused and not knowing what to ask next. Finally Mother Teresa Rooms 751 and 752 breaks the silence by saying, “If you can’t understand the meaning Meets from 11:00 am of what I’ve just said, I’m sorry but there’s no way I can explain it to 12:15 pm any better.” Fraternity Gathering St. Bonaventure said: “Whether St. Francis was walking or sitting, at home or abroad, whether he was working or resting, he was so fervently devoted to prayer that he seemed to have dedicated to it at 1:00 to 3:00 pm not only his heart and soul, but all his efforts and all his time.” Anthony Hall, Founders Room February dedicated to the Holy Family. February is the month dedicated to the Holy Family. Though the start of the Lenten season changes within the calendar year, a fair-sized portion of February gives us a space of time between the Christmas and the increased focus on Jesus's public life and ministry, which occurs in Lent. Therefore traditionally February has become a time to recall the Holy Family; within the Holy Family is where Jesus spent the time between his birth and embarking on his public journey. “The Holy Family is the beginning of countless other holy families.” The remembrance of the ~ St. John Paul II most holy Passion of Jesus Christ is the door through which the soul enters into intimate union with God, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, interior recollection and most I give You my heart and sublime contemplation... - my soul. St. Paul of the Cross ♥ ["3] ♥ A Lenten Reflection from our Spiritual Assistant Giving Yourself Away There's the familiar biblical story of the rich young man talking to Jesus . At the end of their conversation Jesus says to him: "There is still one thing left for you: sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor, and you will have a treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me." What is this if not the story of Francis of Assisi's life? It was what he desired with all his heart and what he lived out until the day he died. I use to think that finding your life by losing your life was a commandment. This is what you should do. But no, it is not a commandment. It is the meaning of what it is to be a human being. If you want to find yourself, give yourself away. This is what existence is like. If you give yourself away you won’t run out of life. Being and giving yourself is exactly the same thing. It’s what it means to be human. The Franciscan movement results from Francis and the brothers learning about what is required so that human beings might flourish as God intended. The real religious genius of Francis of Assisi lies in his ability to appreciate and value the human as the religious. In simple terms, Francis understood the gospel as showing us what it means to be really and simply human as brothers and sisters in the context of social meanings and structures that are often anti-human. To be a healthy human brother or sister is to be a holy human person. Our way of being simply human is the message Francis was called to share – God’s house is repaired and renewed in brotherhood and sisterhood, where human life in its weakness, fragility and vulnerability are embraced and celebrated and endured and supported in patience and healthy relationships, and where honest conversation is practiced and promoted as a way of being.
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