As it says in Psalm 150, verse 6: “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.” The joy that one finds in the Black Church may be just that, as everyone gives praise. And the joy can be found in the song the choir is singing that tells me everything will be all right.
In three weeks of visitation in Malta, Fr. Jeff Scheeler has experienced the beauty of this Mediterranean archipelago and the warm hospitality of its friars, Bishops, Poor Clares, Secular Franciscans, youth groups and parishioners.
Sr. Doris Gerke, OSC, remembers Blessed James MIller, FSC, from their time of service in Guatemala.
The number of crosses, crucifixes and statues keeps growing to perhaps 200,000 today.
“What a good man. What a good friend. What a good priest. What a good friar,” says Fr. Matthias Crehan of Fr. Valentine Young.