What does the country’s largest Catholic high school and a famous rapper have in common? Both just so happened to be in Italy at the same time! From June 28 to July 5, we travelled to Italy with St. Francis Prep H.S., Fresh Meadows.
St. Francis of Assisi
Statue of St. Francis Is Back with the Brothers
On Oct. 4, the St. Francis Prep community, Fresh Meadows, will celebrate the feast day of the school’s patron saint, and mark the return of a statue of St. Francis of Assisi that was part of the school’s first campus on Butler St. in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.
Francis of Assisi: A Saint for Everyone
Three renditions of St. Francis of Assisi by AnnaMarie Prono. Watercolor and ink were used to create the likenesses at left and above, while the depiction of the saint holding a cross and dove is acrylic on wood.
Pope Leads Prayers for The Care of Creation
Pope Francis prayed people would learn to contemplate God in the universe and protect life on the World Day of Care for Creation.
Encyclical Has Franciscan Title
ROME (CNS) – “Laudato Si,” the title Pope Francis chose for his encyclical on the environment, comes from a hymn of praise by St. Francis of Assisi that emphasizes being in harmony with God, with other creatures and with other human beings, said the head of the Franciscan order. Sitting under towering trees, surrounded by […]
St. Francis Prep Students Peek at Patron Saint’s Note
Students, faculty, and staff from St. Francis Prep had the opportunity to reconnect with a profound part of their past: a collection of nearly 800-year-old documents that relate to St. Francis of Assisi.
Assisi In Brooklyn: Rare Opportunity to View Historic Exhibit of Franciscan Manuscripts
By Father Brian Jordan, O.F.M. St. Francis of Assisi is now in Brooklyn. He has arrived in the form of rare Franciscan manuscripts that have never left the library of the Sacro Convento San Francesco in Assisi in 700 years! This all came about through a mutual arrangement of the Conventual Franciscans who administer the […]
Presepio: Italian Tradition Tells the Christmas Story (with slideshow)
The Christmas season is a time known for its traditions, from putting up lights and stockings, to singing carols and of course displaying a Christmas tree. But there’s a tradition that lives on today that has been passed on from generation to generation: the construction of a presepio, a Nativity scene depicting the birth of […]
Spirit of a Saint Lives At St. Francis College (with slideshow)
by Marie Elena Giossi Creatures, both great and small, gathered with their human companions at St. Francis College’s inaugural animal blessing on the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, Oct. 4, in Brooklyn Heights. As locals hurried to work and students arrived for classes, Father Brian Jordan, O.S.F., college chaplain, welcomed an array of “friends […]
Pope Francis to Visit Assisi
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Francis will visit the birthplace of his namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, on the saint’s feast day, Oct. 4. The Vatican confirmed the trip May 23. Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino of Assisi said he was thrilled about the visit and that it was “a great sign” of the pope’s benevolence and […]