Though fewer Catholics know about it, St. Francis’ death is also memorialized every year. Transitus, which means “passage” in Latin, is an annual Oct. 3 evening service in which Franciscans ...

Capuchin Franciscan friars gathered at St. Lawrence Seminary to celebrate the Transitus of St. Francis, a unique Franciscan tradition that commemorates the “transition” of St. Francis from his ...

In the meantime, I am reminded of something that St. Francis of Assisi is remembered to have said to his brother friars not long before he experienced his ultimate earthly transitus. Looking back ...

We should seek to live simply, to take only what we need and share what we have, to see ourselves in kinship with all of ...

St. Francis’ meditations on the life of Christ led him to create the first-ever Nativity scene in Greccio, Italy, in 1223. Fresco by Giotto of St. Francis of Assisi embracing the Child Jesus at ...

He also loved Christmas, the Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord. St. Francis’ meditations on the life of Christ led him to create the first-ever Nativity scene in Greccio, Italy, in 1223.