FEAST OF ST. FRANCIS - 2011

TRANSITUS & FEASTDAY GREETINGS

 

HAPPY FEAST OF ST. FRANCIS!

 

The friar community here at Our Lady of the Angels held its annual TRANSITUS service on the evening of October 3rd, prayerfully and gratefully remembering the life and the death of St. Francis.   Across the world, on the evening before the feast of St. Francis which is October 4th, Franciscans -- friars and sisters and lay Franciscans -- along with friends, gather to retell the last years and hours of St. Francis' life.  In every language and custom imaginable, the story is retold.  It's a wonderful annual service which prepares us to celebrate the feast the next day.

 

Here at the Prayer Fraternity, the Trappist monks from Assumption Abbey, the hermits from Nazareth Hermitage and other local friends are invited to join in this special memorial service.  Twenty plus friends joined our community in the celebration both in the chapel and in the social that followed.    

 

HAPPY FEAST OF ST. FRANCIS TO ALL OF YOU!