Secular Franciscans of St. Louis the King Fraternity

During Lent you can pray as the early Franciscans did with this visually beautiful Short Way of the Cross from Thomas Aquinas College in Ojai, CA. Click on this link to sign up for a daily email with a drone video of the Short Way of the Cross and a one sentence intention for that day from a priest. You can sign the opt-in form on that link for those daily reminders. The video is of the Stations of the Cross path at Thomas Aquinas College in Ojai, CA. I have walked and prayed this path many times at the college. It is quiet among the Redwoods. It is a beautiful setting to contemplate what Our Lord suffered for us. Blessings, Kim

The Life of Saint Clare from the Perspective of a Third Order Secular Franciscan Bret Thoman, OFS By Gregg Garrison, OFS, Minister TITLE & CITATION:    Thoman, Bret, OFS. St. Clare of Assisi: Light from the Cloister. Charlotte, North Carolina: TAN Books, 2017. 239 pages. Available in Hardcover ($24.95) and Kindle ($9.98). AUTHOR:   Bret Thoman, OFS, author, Forward by Rosella Chiara Mancinelli, and Afterward by Murray Bodo, OFM. BOOK REVIEW: The biography of Saint Clare in St. Clare of Assisi: Light from the Cloister is researched and written from the unique perspective of a Third Order Secular Franciscan. Saint Clare of Assisi (16 JUL 1194 – 11 AUG 1253) was born Chiara Offreduccio.  Saint Claire was canonized on 15 AUG 1255.  Thoman did not write a traditional biography. He states in his Author’s Note: “What follows is not a work of academia, objective biography, or straight history. Instead, I have sought some...