From the Friars, Daily eLetter Archive Author

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Fr. Glenn Sudano, CFR	Fr. Benedict Groeschel, CFR	Fr. Richard Roemer, CFR	Fr. Luke Fletcher, CFR
Fr. Herald Brock, CFR	Fr. John Anthony Boughton, CFR	Br. Crispin Rinaldi, CFR	Fr. Solanus Benfatti, CFR
Br. Agustino Torres, CFR	Br. Philip Allen, CFR	Br. John Bosco Mills, CFR	Br.Giuseppe Siniscalchi, CFR
Br. Jeremiah Shryock, CFR	Br. Dismas Kline, CFR	Sr. Clare Matthiass, CFR	Sr. Francis O'Donnell, CFR
Sr. Cecilia Jesse, CFR	Sr. Jacinta Pollard, CFR	Sr. Catherine Holum, CFR	Various Authors
Photos	Slide Shows

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Fr. Glenn Sudano, CFR
				Nov. 26	Blessing of Retreat Center
Oct. 30	review of Bella	Oct. 25	Bella	Oct. 9	Jet-setting
Sept. 27	Addictions	Sept. 7	Mass of Thanksgiving - Diaconate	July 19	Thumbs up
July 5	The Word of God	June 19	Baptism	May 16	Ordinations 2007
May 10	Mass with Edward Cardinal Egan	May 3	20th Anniversary	April 26	Sowing the Seed
April 18	Making Decisions	April 8	Easter morn	Mar. 30	Truth
Mar. 23	Confession	Mar. 14	First Vows 2007	March 9	Prayer & Confession
Feb. 26	Value	Feb. 25	"Repair My House"	Feb. 17	Post-Abortive Healing
Feb. 1	Saint Padre Pio video	Jan. 24	Fidelity	Jan. 17	Serving the Poor
Jan. 12	Materialism	Jan. 5	Keep Celebrating!	Jan 3, 2007	Give 'em whatever ya got !
Dec. 31	One in the Body of Christ	Dec. 25	And the Word was made Flesh...	Dec. 16	Houghton College visit
Nov. 23	Saying "Thank you"	Nov. 17	Death	Nov. 10	Confession
Nov. 3	Giving a good example	Oct. 26	Halloween	Oct. 18	Ghana
Oct. 14	"Thank you"	Oct. 9	Transitus	Oct. 4	Novena Prayer to St. Francis
Sept. 26	The People of Hope	Sept. 14	Reception of Postulants	Sept. 13	"Spiritual Types"
Sept. 8	Saint John the Baptist	Aug. 31	Anti-Catholic Attitudes	Aug. 14	Disappointment
Aug. 3	Final Vows	July 28	It's a guy thing	July 19	Woe to you
July 15	Chapel Renovation	July 10	Spiritual Renewal	June 27	Value
June 23	Putting the Scriptures into practice	June 16	Retreat (part 2)	June 14	Retreat
June 10	Blood is thicker than water	June 3	The Holy Spirit	May 19	"Station Break"
May 16	Ordinations 2006	May 9	Our present challenge to the faith	April 28	Our "weakest link"
April 24	Misleading the innocent	April 19	Happy Easter	April 13	Christ's Passion
April 8	Catechism	April 3	Reiki	Mar. 28	The Invisible Net
Mar. 22	Praying for Grace	Mar. 16	Youth 2000	Mar. 12	First Profession of Vows 2006
March 8	Novitiate Class 2006	March 1	Lent	Feb. 27	Ghana Liturgy
Feb. 22	The Chair of St. Peter	Feb. 16	Pope Benedict's encyclical	Feb. 12	Ghana photos
Feb. 11	Ghana	Feb. 1	God's Power	Jan. 26	"Missionary Friars"
Jan. 20	Holy Mother Church	Jan. 17	Confession	Jan. 11	Being Faithful to God's Will
Jan. 7, 2006	Why does God allow suffering?	Dec. 30	The Christmas Season	Dec. 22	Live Nativity
Dec. 17	The Nativity	Dec. 14	Who are you?	Dec. 9	Advent
Dec. 1	Honduras	Nov. 26	"Doom and Gloom"	Nov. 15	Will Jesus find faith?
Nov. 11	Jesus' house	Nov. 8	Death	Nov. 4	Holidays into "holydays"
Nov. 1	All Saints	Oct. 28	Can spirits attach to objects?	Oct. 27	Halloween
Oct. 26	Transitus photos	Oct. 21	"helps to holiness"	Oct. 18	Centering Prayer
Oct. 14	When tragic events happen	Oct. 11	Organized religion	Oct. 7	Catholicism, Mary / saints
Oct. 4	Feast of St. Francis	Oct. 1	Vocations	Sept. 30	The devil and evil spirits
Sept. 29	Medjugorje	Sept. 27	Saint Francis statue with skull	Sept. 23	Salvation
Sept. 22	Mission to Louisiana	Sept. 21	Franciscan habit	Sept. 19	Complexities of Catholic Church
Sept. 15	Reception of postulants	Sept. 10	Friars and Monks	Sept. 8	Fear of the Lord
Sept. 6	Diaconate ordinations	Sept. 2	Proving you're a Christian	Aug. 31	Why does evil occur?
Aug. 23	Grace	Aug. 17	Living voluntary poverty	Aug. 6	intro to Honduras diary
Aug. 3	Final Vows	July 29	"over eighty" club	July 27	Tradition vs. traditions
July 21	The sower and the seed	July 20	Blood is thicker than water	July 19	Modern Day Scribe
July 15	Recognition - homeless man	July 12	Should we pray for Satan?	July 6	Thoughts about Webpage
June 30	Nicene Creed	June 23	Nurturing Vocations	June 5	General Chapter
May 18	Ordinations

Fr. Benedict Groeschel, CFR
March 11	The Dark Ages?	Feb. 20	Lent	Feb. 4, 2007	Catholic Education?
Dec. 23	An Embattled Christmas	Dec. 17	Atheism and Belief	Dec. 3	The Culture Wars & Christmas
Nov. 19	A Visit with Mother Angelica	Nov. 14	Christmas Watch 2006	Oct. 22	A Pilgrimage to Rome
Oct. 16	Listening to a Tragedy	Oct. 1	Pro-Life Sunday	Sept. 24	The Week of the Angels
Sept. 17	First Vows	Sept. 10	An Amazing Visit	Sept. 5	Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Aug. 28	Saint Augustine	Aug. 20	A Peace to End All Peace	Aug. 15	A Glorious Mystery
August 7	Birthdays	July 30	Final Vows	July 9	EWTN - 25 years
July 2	Gay Sadness Sunday	June 20	A Protest Rally	June 11	Trinity Sunday
June 6	An Interesting Visitor	May 21	Speak Up	May 14	CFR Ordinations 2006
May 7	The Attacks on Jesus Continue	April 30	Impressions of our New Pope	April 23	Divine Mercy Needed
April 16	Happy Easter from Judas	April 9	Holy Week	April 2	Things Go On
Mar. 25	The Canonization of Rage	Mar. 15	St. Patrick's & the Friars	March 6	First Profession of Vows
Feb. 26	The New Cardinals	Feb. 19	A Retreat with the Trappists	Feb. 5	Pray for Ireland
Jan. 29	A Trip to Washington	Jan. 22	Purgation and Evolution	Jan. 14	Judgment and Justice
Jan. 8	A Retreat with Christ	Jan 1, 2006	New Beginnings	Dec. 25	Christmas
Dec. 20	Suffering	Dec. 5	An Important Book	Nov. 28	Advent - Again
Nov. 20	One Nation under God	Nov. 13	Fr. Paul Francis Wattson	Nov. 6	St. Felix of Nicosia
Oct. 30	Mama Gili	Oct. 23	Fr. John Christopher Drumgoole	Oct. 16	Mary Varick
Oct. 9	Terence Cardinal Cooke	Oct. 2	Fr. Felix Varela	Sept. 25	Henriette Delille
Sept. 18	Dorothy Day	Sept. 11	Fr. Patrick Peyton	Sept. 4	Catherine Doherty
Aug. 21	Fr. Walter Ciszek	Aug. 14	Intro to miniseries	July 31	Knowing saints or potential saints
July 24	Franciscans and the new Pope	July 17	Ordination of Bishop Kevin Vann	July 10	Obscene material on tv...
July 3	Saint Peter and his successors	June 26	Loving and Hating the Pope	June 19	EWTN News
June 12	A Wonderful Experience	May 29	Catholic Church at present time	May 22	Most Holy Trinity
May 15	Pentecost

Fr. Richard Roemer, CFR
Oct. 4	Feast of Saint Francis	Oct 1	Saint Therese	July 13	Chicken Coop
July 4	Our Catholic Faith	June 25	Forgiveness	June 3	Contrasting Worlds
May 24	Novena Prayer to the Holy Spirit	May 13	Generosity	May 1	Do you want to be a saint?
April 10	The Light of Christ	April 3	His precious feet	Feb. 28	The Mass
Feb. 19	Adoration	Feb. 11	Rosary	Feb.6	Group Support
Jan. 29	Open Bible	Jan. 26	Pro-Life March	Jan. 22	Reconciliation
Jan. 9	Prayer	Jan 2, 2007	A New Year	Dec. 22	The Gift of our Will
Dec. 11	What is Forever?	Dec. 6	Da Vinci Put To Flight	Nov. 20	The Book of Life
Nov. 6	Unselfish Love	Oct. 31	Immorality in the media	Oct. 23	Need of a Saviour
Oct. 17	The Sacred Heart	Oct. 2	Guardian Angels	Sept. 19	Trust in God
Sept. 11	Suffering	Sept. 4	Labor Day	Aug. 21	Counter Cultural
July 31	The Best Defense	July 24	Saint Sharbel Makhluf	July 17	Worthy
July 3	Lack of Faith	June 19	Sermon on the Mount	June 12	Litany of the Presence of Christ
June 5	Pentecost	June 2	Novena Prayer to the Holy Spirit	May 15	The Holy Priesthood
May 8	Fullness of Life	May 1	Saint Joseph, the Worker	April 26	Resurrection
April 10	The truth sets us free	Mar. 20	Saint Joseph	Mar. 14	"Letter to our Families"
March 7	Newly Professed Friars	Feb. 28	The Tau	Feb. 20	God's Mercy
Feb. 14	praying for loved ones	Feb. 6	Franciscans & Capuchins	Jan. 24	Gossip (part 2)
Jan. 23	Gossip	Jan. 16	meaning of "He descended into hell"	Jan. 9	Baptism
Jan. 4, 2006	"New" and "Free"	Dec. 29	returning gifts	Dec. 21	bumper stickers
Dec. 12	Our Lady of Guadalupe	Dec. 7	TV talk show	Nov. 29	Advent
Nov. 21	Presentation	Nov. 14	Keeping Jesus in our hearts	Nov. 7	Fraternal correction
Oct. 31	All Saints Eve	Oct. 25	Five new saints	Oct. 17	Catholic church
Oct. 10	Why can't non-Catholics receive communion?	Oct. 3	Seeing Christ in society's outcasts	Sept. 26	Novena prayer to St. Francis
Sept. 20	Why can only men be priests?	Sept. 14	Triumphant Stations of the Cross	Sept. 13	Triumphant Stations of the Cross
Sept. 12	Triumphant Stations of the Cross	Sept. 5	Mother Teresa	Aug. 22	"Daniel" - battling cancer
Aug. 15	Mary's Assumption into heaven	Aug. 1	Battle for morality	July 25	Saint James
July 18	Signs of God's presence	July 11	Saint Benedict	July 4	Trust in the Lord
June 28	Take up your cross...	June 21	Blessed are the meek...	June 13	Saint Anthony
June 6	The Beatitudes	May 24	Poverty

Fr. Luke Fletcher, CFR
Nov. 15	The Winepress of God's Love	Nov. 5	Praying for the Dead	Oct. 29	The Gospel Today
Oct. 17	The Fun House Mirror	Oct. 3	Epic Stories	Sept. 25	Reception of Postulants - 2007
Sept. 23	Photo Negatives (Part 2)	Sept. 21	Photo Negatives (Part 1)	Aug. 27	Our Dangerous Capacity
Aug. 17	Jesus of Nazareth	Aug. 10	Attune Your Heart to God	July 26	The Trombone & Spirituality
July 16	The Word in the Eucharist and the Bible	July 11	A Prophet for Today	July 7	Distractions
July 3	Jesus Loves Me!	June 27	Magnetic Mailboxes	June 21	Fear of the Lord
June 12	Unity	June 5	Importance of the Church	May 29	Connect the Dots
May 18	Battle of the Wills	May 7	Time to Get the Facts	April 30	Respect for Human Life
Mar. 27	Happiness and Fulfillment	Jan. 10	God's Will	Dec. 29	Trust in the Lord (Part 3)
Dec. 28	Trust in the Lord (Part 2)	Dec. 27	Trust in the Lord (Part 1)	Nov. 22	Giving Thanks
Oct. 24	necessity of prayer	Sept. 27	Small Things - Great Love	Aug. 27	Religions
Aug. 19	God's Interest in Our Lives	August 5	Important Moments in Life	July 27	Bear Patiently with the Difficult
July 12	Remember when the Lord Remembered You	July 7	Counsel the Doubtful	June 22	Vocations
May 11	Listening	April 18	Visionaries	April 11	Thirst
April 4	The Menu of Life	Mar. 24	Ministries making a difference	March 3	Atheistic Revolution
Feb. 10	Salvation	Feb. 4	Father Alvaro Corcuera, LC	Jan. 24	Cleanliness of the soul
Jan. 12	If this were your last day	Jan. 5, 2006	Chances to pray	Dec. 13	This day, let us pray...
Dec. 8	Healing service	Dec. 3	Free will	Nov. 23	Spiritual communion
Nov. 17	Potholes of sin	Nov. 10	Sin	Nov. 2	Lord of the Rings
Oct. 24	Conversion	Oct. 19	Spiritual direction	Oct. 13	Month of Holy Rosary
Oct. 6	Postulancy	Sept. 9	World Youth Day	Aug. 18	Presence of God
July 28	Medjugorje	July 9	The family	June 29	Watchful Father
June 22	What will make us happy?	June 15	The saints	June 9	The spiritual life
April 26	"Right" and "Left"	April 13	Prayer for Papal Election	April 9	Death of Pope John Paul II
April 1	The Resurrection of Jesus	March 24	The Holy Triduum	March 17	St. Patrick
March 2	Christ's Transfiguration	Feb. 23	Divine Mercy	Feb. 16	Faith, Hope, Charity
Feb. 9	Ash Wednesday	Feb. 2	Eucharistic Adoration	Jan. 28	March for Life & Snow Flakes
Jan. 19	Hand-Made Sandwiches	Jan. 12	We Need God	Jan. 6, 2005	Only Love is Important
Dec. 29	Consequences of Christmas	Dec. 22	Jesus Our King	Dec. 15	Things Change
Dec. 8	He, She, They	Dec. 1	Advent Focus	Nov. 24	Isaiah 55:8-9
Oct. 13	Fatima	Oct. 7	We are at War!	Sept. 29	Angels
Sept. 23	Confession to a Priest	Sept. 15	The Holy Cross	Sept. 8	New Postulants

Fr. Herald Brock, CFR
		May 14	The Eucharist (Part 4)	May 5	The Eucharist (Part 3)
April 25	The Eucharist (Part 2)	April 19	Sacramentum Caritatis (Part 1)	April 15	Clothed in Mercy
Mar. 21	Journey	Feb. 3, 2007	Transformation	Oct. 20	The Necessity of Baptism
Sept. 12	"Be Opened"	Sept. 6	Becoming Like Children	Aug. 21	Could Jesus Have Married?
Aug. 12	The Canaanite Woman	July 21	Looking Into a Mirror	May 31	Undisguised Humanity
May 25	Honduras Medical Mission	May 23	Honduras Medical Mission	May 4	The Empty Tomb - Part 4
May 2	The Empty Tomb - Part 3	April 27	The Empty Tomb - Part 2	April 25	The Empty Tomb - Part 1
April 6	Spiritual Résumé	Mar. 29	Lent	March 10	Bringing hope to Honduras
Sept. 16	Lost sheep of Christ	Sept. 7	Year of the Eucharist	Aug. 24	Prayer for Supreme Court Justice
July 23	Sacred art	July 13	First Station of the Cross	June 25	Children of Death
June 16	Compassion	June 10	Struggle to lead spiritual life	May 26	Purification of Memory

Fr. John Anthony Boughton, CFR
Nov. 29	Divorce (Part 2)	Nov. 28	Divorce (Part 1)	Oct. 13	Confession (Part 3)
Oct. 12	Confession (Part 2)	Oct. 11	Confession (Part 1)	Aug. 30	Why "Father?" (Part 2)
Aug. 29	Why "Father?" (Part 1)	July 6	Purgatory (Part 2)	July 5	Purgatory (Part 1)
May 24	Honduras Medical Mission	May 22	Preparations for Brigade	Apr 14 '06	Judas
July 7	Purity of Heart	July 1	Fixin' what's broke	June 24	Original Sin
June 14	Being a Human Being	June 8	Devils abound, but be not afraid	May 28	Angels amongst us

Br. Crispin Rinaldi, CFR
				Sept. 16	Given over to Peace
Mar. 30	First Things First	Mar. 11	The Experience of Prayer	Mar. 4	A Time for Joy

Fr. Solanus Benfatti, CFR
Sept. 29	That Mysterious Me	June 18	Corpus Christi	Jan. 28, 2006	Saint Thomas Aquinas
Nov. 19	Heavenly Fruitfulness	Oct. 15	Saint Teresa of Avila	Oct. 8	Front Door Ministry

Br. Agustino Torres, CFR
				Jan. 30, 2007	God reaches down to us
Dec. 6	Midnight Run	Nov. 25	Gratefulness, joy	Sept. 1	Tattoos, body piercings
Aug. 2	Did Jesus have siblings?	July 16	Neo Darwinism	July 5	Poem: By the Grace of God
June 27	Eating the sins of the world	June 18	Penance	May 19	Answering Questions

Br. Philip Maria Allen, CFR
				Nov. 9	Arise with Christ
Sept. 5	Mother Teresa, pray for us	July 27	Friar Forever	July 9	Pray, Love, and Suffer
June 26	Secret of Victory	June 16	"Now"	May 31	Love is a Battle
April 24	Relentless	April 16	All is Grace	Mar. 26	Battle for the Present Moment
March 12	"Little Things"	Jan. 23	Expect Great Things	Jan. 15	Christ is Compassion
Jan. 7	"Change Me, Lord"	Dec. 19	Still Yours	Dec. 2	The Book of the Cross
Nov. 25	Love	Nov. 15	Sweetest Hour of Agony	Nov. 9	Don't Dare Take My Cross Away
Oct. 30	If You Had Just Two Books	Oct. 25	One Holy Communion	Oct. 7	Dare to Dream
Sept. 25	The Time is Now!	Sept. 7	Three Dollars and a Dream	Aug. 26	Patience
Aug. 10	True Treasures	August 2	"Children Freed"	July 26	Jesus, We Trust in Your Victory!

Br. John Bosco Mills, CFR

Oct. 11	emergency novena	Aug. 14	"Exorcising" our culture	Nov. 21	Praying for each other

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Br. Giuseppe Siniscalchi, CFR
June 22	Understanding others	June 14	Turn to the Lord	June 3	Suffering
May 23	Accept Yourself	April 6	The Crucifixion	April 4	He is here
Mar 29	Cast away your sins	Mar. 22	Worry	March 1	Forgiveness
Feb. 15	Faith and Reason	Feb. 9	To Encounter God	Jan. 14	Tend my sheep
Dec. 24	The gifts of Jesus	Dec. 8	When We Are Powerless	Oct. 27	The value of suffering
Oct. 20	"Look Daddy, a little baby!"	Oct. 3	Time to Pray

Br. Jeremiah Shryock, CFR
				Nov. 20	Letters to a Friend - #6
Nov. 1	Come Lord Jesus	Oct. 22	Letters to a Friend - #5	Sept. 29	Letters to a Friend - #4
Sept. 19	A Prayer to Jesus	Aug. 30	Letters to a Friend - #3	Aug. 22	Letters to a Friend - #2
Aug. 16	Letters to a Friend - #1	July 30	Christian Strength	July 17	Christian Charity
July 10	Prayer	June 29	A Saint	June 17	God
June 1	Love one another	April 28	Carrying our Crosses	April 17	A Prayer for the Easter Season
April 5	Denial	Mar. 20	Wisdom	March 7	selfishness
Feb. 22	Abandoning oneself to God	Feb. 16	The Existence of God	Jan. 31	Surrendering to God's Will
Jan. 19	Guilty of being a Christian	Jan. 16	Hope in God	Jan. 11	Seeking God
Dec. 5	Advent (Love’s recovery)	Nov. 27	Growing in Holiness	Nov. 13	Time
Nov. 1	Prayer	Oct. 5	Regrets	Sept. 2	Trust in God
Aug. 16	The Jesus Prayer	August 1	Silence	July 25	Heroes
July 18	The Words of Christ	June 30	Walk with God	May 30	Love of God and neighbor
May 18	Betrayal	May 10	Saying "yes" to God	May 3	An Intimate Relationship with God