– the Chimes – Visit us at http://dcsfo.org/ P.O. BOX 90366 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20090-0366 NOV Vol. LXII, No. 11 November 18, 2018 Schedule Fraternity Meeting Agenda 9:00am Inquiry Session – St. Bonaventure • Reception honoring newly professed Room downstairs member Francoise Bidiki 9:00am Candidate Session (2019) – Sacred • Opening prayer Heart Room downstairs • Minister and Formation Director’s address 11:15am Franciscan Crown Rosary in Sacred to newly professed Heart Room (note change!) • Rite of Admission for new Candidate – 12:00pm Mass and Profession in Monastery We welcome into our family those who church have completed Inquiry and feel called to 1:00pm Fraternity Social Gathering – St. further pursue their path towards profession Bonaventure Room – downstairs in in the Order. Please welcome and greet the Friary. Bring your own lunch, with joy our new Candidate, Amy Bilyeau. light refreshments will be provided. • Short Teaching 1:30pm Fraternity Meeting – St. Bonaventure • Closing Evening prayer. If you have the Room book “Shorter Christian Prayer”, please bring it with you. ⧫ Theme: FAMILY ⧫ Bible Quote of the Month Prayer of the Month “For this reason I kneel before the Father, from We thank you, Father of all, for the human whom every family in heaven and on earth family you gave us when we were born; may we derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious always cherish them and be a part of them and riches he may strengthen you with power they a part of us. We thank you, too, O Lord through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Jesus, for Holy Mother Church, the family into Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. which we were born through baptism, that we And I pray that you, being rooted and may always treasure her, protect her, and established in love, may have power, together through her rejoice in You. We thank you, Holy with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how Spirit, for the Franciscan family You inspired wide and long and high and deep is the love of through your servant Francis and which you Christ, and to know this love that surpasses gave to us, that we who professed into it may knowledge—that you may be filled to the love these brothers and sisters as our own and measure of all the fullness of God.” (Eph 3:14- never be separated from them until we meet You 19) in that final home to which we are all called. Chimes, November 18, 2018 p2 Contact Information The Rule Fraternity Council Chapter Two, Article 14 of The Please call before 9pm. Rule of the Secular Franciscan Order. Larry Bleau (Minister) 301-474-1338 [email protected] Secular Franciscans, together Michele Dunne (Vice Minister) 202-412-1210 with all people of good will, are called to [email protected] build a more fraternal and evangelical Bill Richardson (Secretary) 301-848-7390 world so that the kingdom of God may be [email protected] brought about more effectively. Mindful Vilma Camposano (Treasurer) 301-891-3834 that anyone who follows Christ, the perfect [email protected] man, becomes more of a man himself, let Adele Lewis (Formation Dir.) 239-839-5489 them exercise their responsibilities [email protected] competently in Christian spirit of service. Fr. Jim Gardiner, S.A. (Spiritual Assistant) 202-526-6800 x374 [email protected] The Information Corner – Pope Quote Larry Bleau (Chimes Editor) 301-474-1338 “Let us commit ourselves with [email protected] prayer and action to distance Also visit our web site: http://dcsfo.org/ our hearts, our words and our St. Margaret of Cortona Regional Council deeds from all violence in Bob Longo (Minister) [email protected] order to take care of our Mary Bibro (DC Metro Area Councilor) common home.” “Praying [email protected] means knocking at the door of a friend. God is 2 National Fraternity our friend.” Jan Parker (Minister) [email protected] Papal Intention for the Month Universal Intention – In the Service of Peace. ADMONITION OF ST. FRANCIS That the language of love and dialogue may 3 1 always prevail over the language of conflict. 23. On humility Blessed (is) the servant, Extra Christmas Donation who is found to be as Each year Council decides how much to donate humble among his own to various Franciscan charities for subjects, as when for Christmas. Please consider an example he would be additional donation to the fraternity among his own lords. this month for this purpose. You Blessed (is) the servant, who always remains may indicate this on your envelope. continually under the rod of correction. A faithful and prudent servant is he (cf. Mt 24:45), who in all (circumstances) does not Fraternity Finances delay to punish his own offenses interiorly by Last month we received $265 in donations means of contrition and exteriorly by means of and disbursed $417.33 in expenses; the confession and works of satisfaction. latter includes three years for our web site. 1 The Writings of St. Francis of Assisi, tr. by Paschal 2 Nov 6 and 7, 2018. URL http://twitter.com/pontifex Robinson (1905), accessed September 9, 2017, URL 3 Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network. Accessed Nov 1, http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/wosf/wosf03.htm . 2018, URL http://popesprayerusa.net/popes-intentions/ Chimes, November 18, 2018 p3 The Information Corner have a free will, how could he stop? John had Nov 8th – Feastday of Blessed John Duns Scotus a knack for finding illustrations his students could remember! A humble man, John Duns Scotus After a short stay in has been one of the Oxford, Scotus returned to most influential Paris, where he received Franciscans through the doctorate in 1305. He the centuries. Born continued teaching there at Duns in the and in 1307 so ably county of Berwick, defended the Immaculate Scotland, John was Conception of Mary that descended from a the university officially wealthy farming adopted his position. That same year the family. In later minister general assigned him to the Franciscan years, he was school in Cologne where John died in 1308. identified as John He is buried in the Franciscan church near the Duns Scotus to indicate the land of his birth; famous Cologne cathedral. Scotia is the Latin name for Scotland. Drawing on the work of John Duns Scotus, John received the habit of the Friars Minor at Pope Pius IX solemnly defined the Immaculate Dumfries, where his uncle Elias Duns was Conception of Mary in 1854. John Duns superior. After novitiate, John studied at Scotus, the “Subtle Doctor,” was beatified in Oxford and Paris and was ordained in 1291. 1993.4 More studies in Paris followed until 1297, when he returned to lecture at Oxford and Cambridge. Four years later, he returned to Please Pray For Our Sick Paris to teach and complete the requirements Joe Gigliotti; Rosemary Bordley for the doctorate. and her family; Mary Anne Corr and her niece, Patricia Corr; Maria In an age when many people adopted whole Louisa Correa; Lourdes Corso and systems of thought without qualification, John her family; Sarah Faizi and her pointed out the richness of the Augustinian- family; Jean Fleurival; John Hewitt; Franciscan tradition, appreciated the wisdom of Nancy McCleary; Margaret Murphy and her Aquinas, Aristotle, and the Muslim husband Jim; Fritz Nicholas and his family; philosophers—and still managed to be an Carol Petro; Bill Richardson; Cecilia Thieman independent thinker. That quality was proven and her family; John and Dineen Whipple; in 1303, when King Philip the Fair tried to Donna Wilkes and her family. enlist the University of Paris on his side in a dispute with Pope Boniface VIII. John Duns Scotus dissented, and was given three days to December Birthdays leave France. December 16 – Clotilda Crawley; 20 – Patrick In Scotus’s time, some philosophers held that people are basically determined by forces Nolan, Mark Pirritano, Soledad Wong; 31 – outside themselves. Free will is an illusion, Leonora Okomo. they argued. An ever-practical man, Scotus said that if he started beating someone who 4 Source: Franciscan Media, accessed 1/9/18, URL denied free will, the person would immediately https://www.franciscanmedia.org/blessed-john-duns- tell him to stop. But if Scotus didn’t really scotus/ Chimes, November 18, 2018 p4 Advent Day of Reflection November Reflection Please mark your calandar for By Larry Bleau,OFS Saturday, December 15 for an Family was important to Francis, not just his Advent Retreat Day being held earthly one but his spiritual one as well. In at the Franciscan Monastery, fact, it was as a result of the call from his 9am-4pm (gathering at heavenly Father that the dispute arose with his 8:30am). The speaker will be earthly father and Francis became a son of the Sister Ilia Delio, OSF. Fee is $40, registration Church. deadline is Dec 10, flyer will be available at meeting or on our web site. Although initially solitary in his new vocation, this did not last long. Indeed, when others felt the pull of Francis’ calling, he remarked that Franciscan Feastdays and Memorials God had seen fit to give him brothers, not December 2 – Bl. Maria Angela Astorch, followers5. virgin, II Order; Bl. Rafal Chylinski, priest, I Francis sought the approval of the Pope to form Order; 8 – Immaculate Conception Of The his new Order, and placed it under the care of Blessed Virgin Mary, Patron & Queen of the Mother Church, keeping it safe within the new Franciscan Order; 10 – Bl. Peter Tecelano, III spiritual family. Order; 13 – Finding the Body of St. Francis; 15 – Bl.