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The Capitulars pose for a group photograph at the conclusion of the 8th Ordinary Chapter. Glory to God!!!
Provincial Minister poses with the returning Custos and his newly elected council members.
The Capitulars (brothers) process to the Chapter hall while singing 'Veni Creator Spiritus'.
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FOOD FOR THE SOUL (05/Dec/2020)
Key to Happiness
The end for which we are all toiling, struggling and doing everything we do in this life is a search for fulfillment, in other words, a search for happiness. Everyone wants to be happy. We may have chains of desires and aspirations but the whole purpose of it all is to have a fulfilled and happy life at last. We go to school to study, to get good jobs and get money and thus, live a good and happy life. We want to marry someone we love because we will be happier with them. We enter the religious life because we believe our aspirations to give ourselves entirely to God will give us happiness.
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FRANCISCAN SAINTS
St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Secular Franciscan.
Elizabeth was daughter of a king of Hungary, and niece of Saint Hedwig. She was betrothed in infancy to Louis, Landgrave of Thuringia, and brought up in his father’s court. Not content with receiving daily numbers of poor in her palace, and relieving all in distress, she built several hospitals, where she served the sick, dressing the most repulsive sores with her own hands. Once as she was carrying some provisions for the poor in the folds of her mantle, she met her husband returning from the chase. Astonished to see her bending under the weight of her burden, he opened the mantle which she kept pressed against her, and found in it nothing but beautiful red and white roses, although it was not the season for flowers. Bidding her to pursue her way, he took one of the marvelous roses, and kept it all his life. On her husband’s death she was cruelly driven from her palace, and forced to wander through the streets with her little children, a prey to hunger and cold; but she welcomed all her sufferings, and continued to be the mother of the poor, converting many by her holy life. She died in 1231, at the age of twenty-four.
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