Summer 2024 is flying by here on Iowa Street! Keep an eye out for blog posts throughout the summer sharing monthly highlights. June Arrival of Summer Volunteers Each summer we are so blessed to have a number of OLA “summer students” come on board to help us serve at the Mission during June and July….
Author: Franciscans of the Eucharist
Article Highlighting a Future Postulant’s Discernment Journey
Those of you who live near by and are regulars at the Mission may remember Anna, one of the Notre Dame students who served with us over the summer in 2023. Anna’s time with us helped her to more clearly hear the call of God in her life, and she is now planning to enter…
How to Find Our True Identity
Click here to read the full reflection by Sr. Alicia.
Congratulations New Novices!
On May 5th, we celebrated Sr. Maggie, Sr. Jen, and Sr. Mia receiving the habit and beginning the two-year period of formation known as novitiate. During this time, the new sisters will focus on deepening their prayer lives and learning more about religious life in preparation for professing temporary vows. Please enjoy the highlights below…
St. Clement Service Day
We were blessed to be a host site for another year of St. Clement Parish’s Annual Service Day. This year, about 40 volunteers came in on a Saturday in late April to help us bag food for our food pantry and prepare the gardens for spring planting. Check out this article from Chicago Catholic for…
A Sewer went out to sew…
Reflection by Sr. Jess Many people are often surprised to hear that we sew our religious habits (garments) in house. And yet – upon learning that some of us do exercise the homesteading / pre-modern skill of sewing – they often shake their heads in approval – as if they would have expected nothing less…
The Spiritual Life: Poverty, Purity of Heart, & Eucharistic Living
Sr. Alicia recently wrote a beautiful reflection on her experience of the connections between living Franciscan poverty and living a Eucharistic life. Read the full reflection here: https://review.catechetics.com/spiritual-life-poverty-purity-heart-eucharistic-living
Beautiful Light – Youtube series featuring Sr. Alicia
This Easter season, Sr. Alicia will be helping to lead a 7-week video series aimed at helping people to enter more deeply into the mysteries present in each and every Mass. The series, “Beautiful Light: A Paschal Mystagogy”, is produced by the National Eucharistic Revival. You can tune in via livestream on the Eucharist Revival’s…