Back from Texas!!

I have returned from Texas after visiting the School Sisters of Saint Francis. The sisters are in Panhandle, TX. (That is the name of the town not just the area of where in Texas they are!)

I had a fantastic week! I arrived on Sunday afternoon. The community is very true to the Magisterium. I will be going to visit again in the upcoming weeks. After I visit again then the Community council will meet with me and decide if they would like to invite me to enter as a postulant!

I visited just as four of their sisters were returning from the Motherhouse in Austria. They showed us wonderful pictures from Assisi and the Motherhouse. From where the congration began in 1723. How amazing to see the places of other sisters of the same congregation!

They also visit the places where St. Francis lived as well as St. Claire. They visit his tomb. One day we at Mass we received hosts that were made in Assisi and touched to the tomb of St. Francis! That was an unbelievable day! Another day we went to a place outside of Groom, Texas where there is a 190-Foot Cross and life-size stations of the cross (they are modeled after the stations in Lourdes!) That was beautiful! They also have up some stairs, on a hill the three crosses, representing Calvery! Looking at the faces of the good thief and the bad thief you see a difference in them! It was so incredible (I did not have my camera but I found their website www.crossministries.net . It was amazing! God Bless, and more later!