Featured News Summer with Our Student Friars For the Summer of 2022, friar Edgar Varela, OFM Conv. is participating in the Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) program at ... Read More World Peace and Prayer Day Our province's Fonda, NY Shrine Ministry ~ Saint Kateri Tekakwitha National Shrine and Historic Site will hold a "World Peace ... Read More Friar Michael and Friar Gary ~ Corpus Christi 2022 Fr. Michael Heine, OFM Conv. (Minister Provincial) and Fr. Gary Johnson, OFM Conv. (Vicar Provincial) concelebrated the 11:00 a.m. Corpus ... Read More Corpus Christi 2022 On Sunday, June 19, 2022, The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi), the friars, ... Read More New Province Pastoral Ministry On July 1, 2022, Our Lady of the Angels Province friar, Fr. Pedro de Oliveira, OFM Conv. will begin his ... Read More Apostolic Year of Formation Over this next year (May 2022 – May 2023), friar Joseph Krondon, OFM Conv., a simply professed student friar of ... Read More Summer with Our Student Friars During the Summer Break from studies, the student friars of our province spend time in our varied ministries. In late ... Read More Local Friars Attend Air National Guard Clergy Day Tuesday, June 14, 2022: Hosted by the New York Air National Guard's 174th Attack Wing, Friar Nick and Friar Rick ... Read More Reflection by Fr. Ed Ondrako, OFM Conv. From Pentecost 2021 to Pentecost 2022, I have undertaken a Franciscan tour of reactions to secular modernity. Beginning with the ... Read More Reflection by Fr. Ed Ondrako, OFM Conv. The Scattering of Stars: From Francis of Assisi to Newman, Kolbe, and the Church of Vatican II “The Spirit himself bears ... Read More JPIC - Farm Focus In the last month alone, Little Portion Farm planted nearly 3,000 plants by hand, not including the many beds directly ... Read More Cérémonie Chapelle de Cauquigny ~ June 2nd A Franciscan Friar Conventual priest of our province who served as a US military Paratroopers’ Chaplain, +Capt. Father Ignatius Maternowski, OFM ... Read More Statement on Gun Violence Read More Ordinary Provincial Chapter 2022 - Part I Representing the over 170 friars of Our Lady of the Angels Province, sixty Ordinary Provincial Chapter Friar Delegates joined our ... Read More Reflection by Fr. Ed Ondrako, OFM Conv. From Newman as a Critic of Modernity To Vatican II as Newman’s Council  I have nothing of that high perfection, which belongs ... Read More Graduations at our High School Ministries There are many more to come over this next month or so, and we will update this post as each school ... Read More Mass on the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord Read More about Friar Robert: Meet Friar Robert Amrhein, OFM Conv. | Our Lady of the Angels Province, USA (olaprovince.org) Read More CNA Article: Roberta Drury, a Catholic victim of Buffalo shooting, 'reflected God's love' Excerpts included from the Homily by Friar Nick Spano, OFM Conv. at the Funeral Mass for +Roberta Dury, celebrated at ... Read More Reflection by Fr. Ed Ondrako, OFM Conv. Truth re the Russia-Ukraine War and the Greco-Catholic Church  It is not for you to know the times or periods that ... Read More 5-25-222 Homily by Archbishop Hartmayer ~ Atlanta During the May 25, 2022 Daily Mass at the Chancery of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta, celebrated by Most ... Read More Ordinary Provincial Chapter 2022 Please keep the friars of our province in your prayers as their delegates gather this week for the Ordinary Provincial ... Read More Catching Up with Friar Nicholas in Japan Our Lady of the Angels Province friar, Fr. Nicholas Swiatek, OFM Conv. (above center) serves as a parish priest for ... Read More Feeding the Hungry, Healing the Ill A reflection by our Assistant General, Fr. Jude Winkler, OFM Conv., on his recent visit with the Minister General, to ... Read More Mark Your Calendars ~ St. Anthony Festival After several years without it due to the pandemic, the friars, staff, volunteers and pilgrims of our province's Shrine of ... Read More Archbishop Curley H.S. Celebrates the Class of '72 May 20, 2022: Our Baltimore, MD high school ministry ~ Archbishop Curley High School gathered to celebrate the Golden Friars ... Read More

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