Our Lady of the Angels Friary -- Library
As you enter the friary, and turn right, you enter the Library area. The Library has a very extensive Franciscan collection, but also can boast of great resource materials for our core members and retreatants and guests. It has a number of scripture commentaries and other homily materials. The spiritual classics are there, as well as more contemporary spiritual writers. There are sections on monasticism and religious life. And the list goes on.
In a 2007 evaluation of this Franciscan Prayer Fraternity, one of the core members describes with surprise and delight how quickly the library came to be:
"Early on we felt it a need to have a good library. We really did not expect to have much of one for several years, but much to our surprise we have a great one already! It is primarily a spiritual library with a large Franciscan section. Each of the four of us who came together here had personal libraries and we brought them together. But many friars from the Sacred Heart and the St. John the Baptist Provinces have also donated books to us, as well as St. Anthony Messenger Press. And so our library has expanded."
It's really a very fine library. Guests would easily find an abundance of resource materials to peruse and use during their stay here. There are also a number of audio tapes and cassettes and CD's available for common use.
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