Friends, Romans, Countryfolk,I have had a wonderful eleven years serving as a Catholic Campus Minister for the Diocese of Charlotte at Wake Forest University and Salem College and now I am departing so that I can devote my time to Franciscan Passages, Inc. a new not-for-profit though which I give talks and retreats on Francis of Assisi, his contemporaries and his followers.I would like to thank my parents for teaching me the fundamentals of our faith from a young age and for giving me an example of Christian marriage. I would like to thank my husband for giving me another...

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 It is almost summer, at least by the school calendar, it is summer.I am looking forward to a summer of voluntereing, socializing and going to Mass with my fellow members of the WF Catholic Community. I hope that you are interested in joining us this summer. If you are living on campus in Student Aps, or you are doing research on campus, you are invited to our events as well.I just called up Sheila in the Religion Department, asking her if she was interested in helping us put on a cookout sometime this summer. In fact, she and her husband...

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 My friend shared this video with me. It is of her friend Tony Melendez. Click here to see it!

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 I have not done my due diligence to confirm it, but I believe this is prayer by Thomas Aquinas, or at least, is in his spirit.Exam Prayer for Students Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom, origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your light penetrate the darkness of my understanding. Take from me the double darkness in which I have been born, an obscurity of sin and ignorance. Give me a keen understanding, a retentive memory, and the ability to grasp things correctly and fundamentally. Grant me the talent of being exact in my...

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Take a few minutes and read this address given by the Pope last year in Jordan.  -Julie ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++  PILGRIMAGE OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVITO THE HOLY LAND MEETING WITH MUSLIM RELIGIOUS LEADERS, MEMBERS OF THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS AND RECTORS OF UNIVERSITIES IN JORDAN ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI Mosque al-Hussein bin Talal - AmmanSaturday, 9 May 2009 Your Royal Highness,Your Excellencies,Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a source of great joy for me to meet with you this morning in this magnificent setting. I wish to thank Prince Ghazi Bin Muhammed Bin Talal for his kind words of welcome. Your Royal...

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