by Fr. John O'Connor OFM | May 27, 2021 | Friar Reflection
Samantha had just finished college. The only job she was able to find after graduation was as a nanny to a wealthy and extremely likable family. It was a great job for a nanny – but not what she envisioned her life to be. While her friends were going off to law...
by Fr. John O'Connor OFM | May 19, 2021 | Friar Reflection
Victor Frankl was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who chronicled the horror of three years in four Nazi concentration camps, in his book “Man’s Search for Meaning.” He writes about finding hope even in the most hopeless of situations. He speaks about the...
by Fr. John O'Connor OFM | May 11, 2021 | Friar Reflection
In his book Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life, the late Henri Nouwen writes this: “When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures,...
by Fr. John O'Connor OFM | May 6, 2021 | Friar Reflection
Many, many years ago there was a great wizard who longed for a wife and family. Though he was good and kind, he intimidated every woman he met, who feared that they could never be an adequate wife to such a brilliant sage. So, the wizard decided to use his science in...
by Fr. John O'Connor OFM | May 3, 2021 | Friar Reflection
A new pastor was named for a small parish. The minister was told that it was a ‘dying” church: it wasn’t growing, the small congregation could barely pay its bills, its days were numbered. But in getting to know the congregation, the pastor saw something else: “I...
