NEWS & EVENTS
September and October Events
Welcome back to the Franciscan Spiritual Center. Our hearts are eager to reconnect with you and to share our lives with you again. It has been a long time. Our last live program was March 2019 and our last virtual program was April 2021. This is an inaugural...
Hermitages are Open
Hermitages Open June 14 2021
We have missed you! And we are happy to welcome you to our Franciscan Hermitages beginning June 14, 2021. Registrations will be open as of May 3, 2021. If fully vaccinated,, you may register through Helen Budzik OSF either by phone (610-558-7674) or email...
Difficult News about FSC: Our Grief Expressed
Living in uncertainty is challenging for all of us. Uncertainty teaches us to live in the present moment, awaiting each day to see where we are led and how we can be of service. This is the trust we give to one another each day. This is the new normal for all of...
Pentecost Novena
On Dan Shutte's Website there is a wonderful Novena for Pentecost that begins today (Ascension Thursday). The link is https://www.danschuttemusic.com/wordpressstore/pentecost-novena/ . I know many of you enjoyed his Holy Week preentation so I would encourage you to...
May 7 Update on Activities at the FSC
The Franciscan Spiritual Center will be closed for events in June, July, and August. All retreats and hosting events have been canceled. This includes any activities at Clare House and the Hermitages. Like you, we wish we could go back to what is normal but your...
Macrina Wiederkehr OSB Died
With sadness we share with you the death of Macrina Wiederkehr, OSB. Macrina died on April 24, 2020. She had been scheduled to join us for another weekend retreat in September 2020 but several months ago she called to notify us that she had a brain tumor and would...
Virtual Triduum Services
This week, National Catholic Reporter is offering a very special series which is all the more powerful during these challenging times. Composer and NCR board member Dan Schutte created a virtual celebration for Easter Triduum to help us be in communion, even though we...
May Programs Canceled
It is again with great sadness that we tell you we have extended our cancellations to all May activities at the Franciscan Spiritual Center, Clare House and the hermitages. In order to be fair to our May presenters and to those who are scheduled to be here it seemed...
March and April Programs Canceled
The Covid-19 virus continues to spread. Reports from the CDC and other public health organizations seem to suggest that we should not gather in groups at this time. Therefore in our concern for the safety of all and with an abundance of caution we have made the...