Secular Franciscans of St. Louis the King Fraternity

Father Franklin met with the Secular Franciscans to talk about his calligraphy and how he got started in this art form. Listen to the Podcast Here. Father is going to be giving calligraphy classes to the Third Order Secular Franciscans, and he wanted to first give us the background about how he got started in this art form. Father has created calligraphy cards and books.  Here is a supply list that Father provided to the Secular Franciscans for those who are interested in learning more about calligraphy. Father will be presenting another calligraphy session soon.

Author Mr. Gregory Orfalea sat down with Secular Franciscan Gregg Garrison, Minister of the St. Louis the King Fraternity at the Old Mission in Santa Barbara recently to record this podcast. They discuss, with the St. Louis the King Seculars and two Franciscan Friars, the St. Serra biography written by Mr. Orfalea, “Journey to the Sun”, published by Scribner in 2014 — just a year before Pope Francis’ canonization of St. Serra in 2015. The author and the fraternity have a lively conversation on the Mission system, the Franciscan Friars, Spaniards and indigenous Indians of the Americas in the 16 th to the 19 th centuries.     One recurring theme in their conversation is how the West Coast missionary system historically occurred at the same time as the East Coast colonial system — and how different the two systems were in how the two cultures developed on opposite coasts. The key difference between the Dutch and English colonization of the East Coast and the Spanis