To build this Chapel, the Portiuncula Hermitage needs to raise $120,000 Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, It's times like these that tempt Catholics to throw in the towel and give up on the culture of despair. Greed and corruption have wreaked...

Father Todd Riebe of the Richmond Catholic Community St. Francis admonished the brothers faithfully to observe the holy Gospel and the rule to which they had bound themselves; to bear themselves reverently and devoutly towards the services of the...

Francis did his utmost to encourage the friars to lead austere lives, but he had no time for exaggerated self-denial which excluded tender compassion or was not tempered with discretion. Saint Francis of Assisi Bonaventure, Major Life CHAPTER V T

The Portiuncula Franciscan Hermitage in Jerusalem, Ohio The hermitage should be like a dwelling from another world. The allurements of the secular city should be totally absent in this city of God. Yet the hermitage should be a place of true artistic...

The Mystic Monks have been busy preparing some surprises for this Christmas Season! The most important of these is the Christmas Blend 2009 It is the most sophisticated blend available with a special blend of eight beans from all over the world. It...