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Perhaps you want to know how I, Aimé Van Thong Do, a friar who has always lived in the small fraternities of our Franciscan Province, now feels after being appointed the new guardian of the largest convent of the Canadian Province? This time, I (…)
- Holy Spirit Province
- 27 September, 2022
October 4, 2022 Dear Brother Francis, As we come to this annual celebration of your life, I am again reminded of how you have called me to an awareness in living for today. You were not perfect. Although history has tried to paint you (…)
- Michael Perras, OFM
- 3 October, 2022
The Franciscans in Montreal are moving, and when I first heard our new address, rue Lescarbot, I wondered why it sounded familiar. At first, I thought snails, but these are called escargots. Escarbot is a kind of beetle. They are mentioned in a fable (…)
- Joachim Ostermann, OFM
- 27 September, 2022
On May 9, 1955, Fr. Ulric Ell received approval to construct a new church building at Lac du Bonnet, Manitoba. The old church had been built in 1905 using logs covered with siding, and by the 1950s it had become too small for the (…)
- From the Archives
- 7 October, 2022
“Since my early youth,” writes Marc Chagall, “I have been captivated by the Bible. It has always seemed to me and it still seems to me that it is the greatest source of poetry of all time. Since then I have sought this gleam (…)
- Georges Morin, OFM
- 11 April, 2022
