Check out this brief reflection from Bishop Bob on the importance of almsgiving during this Lenten season!
Author: Franciscans of the Eucharist
The Prayer before the Crucifix
Most High, Glorious God, enlighten the darkness of our hearts. Instill in us a correct faith, a certain hope, and a perfect love, a sense and a knowledge, Lord, that we may do Your holy and true command. Amen. This prayer was written by St. Francis of Assisi, and thought to be the prayer that…
Eucharistic Adoration: doing is good; being is even better
Reflection by Sr. Alicia I am not totally sure how my parents felt when I told them I’d signed up for the 3 AM hour of prayer on Good Friday when I was 16 years old. Our parish had invited us to “watch an hour” with Jesus, and I certainly didn’t want him to be…
SEEK 24
This January, we hit a community milestone and officially sponsored our first booth at a FOCUS SEEK Conference! This year’s conference was hosted in St. Louis and had nearly 20,000 attendees. Sr. Alicia, Sr. Jaime, Sr. Jess, and Sr. Laura represented our community and had the chance to encounter so many young people. They ran…
FE Reflections: How Am I Ordering My Life?
Reflection by Sr. Alicia Torres Every morning my alarm goes off, just like it does, I’m sure, for you. Each morning when I hear that alarm I have two choices: hit the snooze bar and roll over, or turn off the alarm and enter into the day where Jesus is already waiting for me. We…
Christmas Highlights 2023
Merry Christmas! The month of December at Mission OLA was been filled with so many preparations and special events to help our neighbors have a beautiful celebration of Christmas and hopefully enter more deeply into the true meaning of the season. Thanks to the generosity of so many supporters and volunteers, we estimate that this…
Exciting new building project!
In our 2023 Christmas Letter, Bishop Bob officially announced a very exciting new building project – we are going to be renovating the convent at St. Hyacinth’s Basilica to serve as a formation house for our sisters! See Bishop Bob’s full letter here for more details about the project: https://missionola.com/christmas2023.html
Sr. Jaime featured on podcast
Sr. Jaime visited the diocese of Wichita this past summer to speak at a young adult event. While she was there, she shared her vocation story and many other fun stories with our friend Fr. Garret on the About 4 O’clock vocations podcast. Check out the episode here: https://catholicdioceseofwichita.org/about4/a-historic-moment-guest-sr-jamie-mitchell-joins-the-show/