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Saints Francis, Therese and Other Saints, My Companions on the Journey - Brother Bernard Francis
© 2011 Brother Bernard Francis. All rights reserved.
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First published by AuthorHouse 3/11/2011
ISBN: 978-1-4567-2647-8 (sc)
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2011901298
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These Books of Poems have received great reviews from both Carmelite and Franciscan Community Ministers, Diocesan Priests, and every day Catholics who recommend it as a means of spiritual growth and a great source for devotions.
Have you ever wanted to walk next to St. Francis or Therese?
To glance sideways & see their smiles, their passionate love of Jesus, hear their comments?
Bro. Nientello, Bernard Francis, of the Holy Face SFO
Copyright: Therese’s Hermitage of the Holy Face
The Ian Clark Foundation & Therese’s Missions.
Our Mission: To make God much loved; sending a shower of roses down on others.
Ian Wesley Clark of Huber Heights Ohio died on May 17, 2002 after a tragic auto accident. He was a bright, caring young man who showed so much Christ-like love to so many of all ages and backgrounds in the Huber Heights area.
Many of his friends & family desired to not let him be forgotten & so a memorial foundation was established to continue charitable works in his name in 2002.
St. Therese of Lisieux was a young Carmelite nun who died at 24 of tuberculosis after having suffered greatly for many years. She has led many people into a closer relationship with Christ through her little way of doing ordinary things with extra-ordinary love. She is said to be the most loved, most popular saint. She is a doctor of the Catholic Church, of the Science of Love, and co-patron Saint of France and Missions.
She said, After I am dead, I will send down a shower of roses from heaven.
a shower of blessings. Her name & intercession was added to the foundation in 2006.
This non-profit organization was established by two secular Franciscans to continue their work of showering love and blessings out upon others. It has led many to a deeper love of God. It has provided for medical, financial, & other needs of ordinary people, such as food & relief efforts, who had no place to go for help.
Through "Therese’s Hermitage it provides seminars/Days of Recollection, and free copies of Therese’s autobiography,
Story of a Soul" to many. It contributes to many other little ministries such as a monthly e-mail newsletter to its friends and those who are home bound. It has published three books of poetry, composed in 2004-2010, by Bro. Bernard Francis, for personal devotional use well received by Priests, Franciscan and Carmelite ministers and seculars, and many lay Catholics. These will help us support our missions to include the monasteries, such as Therese’s own at Lisieux France.
It also acts as an intercessor for many, daily offering prayer in their behalf. If you would like prayer call 937-313-7290, Therese’s Hermitage, and state your request. You will be prayed for every day. E-mail: gillenp@bww.com
Finally it supports many charities as seen on the following page.
Ian’s Foundation & Therese’s Mission’s Charities
Divine Word Missionaries
PO Box 6099
Techny, IL 60082-6099
Society of the Little Flower
1313 Frontage Road
Darien, Illinois 60561
Covenant House
Times Square Station
PO Box 731
New York, NY 10108-0900
Boys Town
200 Flanagan Blvd.
Boys Town, NE 68010
Catholic Missions of Northern Alaska
1312 Peger Road’
Fairbanks, Alaska 99709
Elizabeth’s New Life Center 359
Forest Ave. Suite 203
Dayton, OH 45405
National Pro-Life Alliance
4521 Windsor Arms Court
Annadale, VA 22003-9916
Catholic Relief Services
PO Box 17145
Baltimore, MD 21297-1145
Friends of Mercy Stockbridge
Association of Marian helpers
MA 01263
Motherhouse
Sacred Heart League
6050 Hwy 161 N
Walls, MS 38686-0213
PNCEA Prison Ministeries
A Ministry of the Paulist National
Catholic Evangelization Association
3031 Fourth Street, NE
Washington, DC 20017-1102
Monasteries
Poor Clare Monastery of Our Lady of Angels
5817 Old Leeds Rd.
Irondale, AL 35210-2164
Poor Clare Monastery of Our Lady of Mercy
Mother Giovana, PCC, Prioress
300 N. 60th Street
Belleville, IL 62223-3927
Poor Clare Monastery of St. Clare
1505 Miles Rd.
Cincinnati, OH 45231
Monastery of St. Therese of Lisieux
Mother John of the Cross, OCD,
P O Box 57
Loretto, PA 15940-0057
Carmel de Lisieux
Mother Frances Marie
37 rue du Carmel
14100 Lisieux, France
Carmelite Monastery-The New Carmel
Fr. Daniel Mary of Christ Crucified,
PO Box 2747
Cody, Wyoming 82414
Carmelite Monastery of the Sacred Hearts
8540 Kenosha Dr.
Colorado Springs, CO 80908-5004
Congrégation des Soeurs de la Charité de Nevers Bernadette
27 Avenue du Gl Michel Bizot
75012 PARIS – France
Dominican Congregation of Mary Mother of the Eucharist
Mother Assumpta
4597 Warren Road
Ann Arbor MI 48105
Dominican Congregation of St. Cecilia
801 Dominican Drive
Nashville, TN 37228 Benedictine
Benedictine Mission House Christ the King Priory
1123 Road 1, PO Box 528,
Schuyler, Nebraska 68661-0528
Little Sisters of the Poor
476 Riddle Road
Cincinnati, OH 45220-24
Book Reviews of: St. Therese of Lisieux and St. Francis of Assisi Companions on My Journey.
Please note some of these are long time members of third order communities, 18-40 years, and some even ministers, of various Franciscan and Carmelite Third Order Communities: some priests, some normal everyday Catholics.
It is rare that one may partake of the intimate journey a soul has with God. In this collection of poems, the reader is being
gifted with access to the depths of a soul in love with God and His Saints, especially St. Therese of Lisieux, St. Bernadette, and St. Francis of Assisi. The author’s candor provides an insight into a loving response to the graces and blessings as well as trials and tribulations found in life. The poems are remarkable for the spirit of love found in them and the action of God’s grace in a soul. Many of the poems are based on an
aspiration of the heart that may be used as an instrumental tool in helping one enter into a deep level of prayer…and a more personal relationship with God.
—Frances Harry, a fellow companion on the Journey
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When I read these poems I came closer to the knowledge of God with in us! Our God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and how He draws us close to him through prayer, each other, our songs in our heart, the suffering we carry with us, the joy we find everywhere, in the need for us to cling to Him always in sorrow and pain, good days and bad. We are never alone with the Communion of Saints. I learned how St. Therese of the Little Flower loved and served her God in the
simple ways." I am grateful for the gift brought forth from this author, who knows, loves and serves his God in the simple ways just like his sister in Christ, St. Therese, and all of the Saint’s in heaven.
Mary Ellen Herrmann, SFO
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RE: My Companions on the Journey…Book 1
I am about halfway through reading the entire book, yet wanted to give you feedback. Thank you for sharing it with me. My favorites thus far are the Dandelion and Love is a Warrior.
The writings are from the heart and show a purity of love and intention. They have produced a calming and healing presence and I can feel a truthful, humble, childlike faith that is meant to inspire others to just come close to Jesus and simply love Him.
Again, thank you for sharing. God Bless.
Mary Ann
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Patrick,.
I hope that this isn’t too late but I did just finish it (a little late in the evening but I really did enjoy those poems that I was able to have time to read and YES it is a very personal journey and a hard book to put down once you start them). I will be keeping these as a form of contemplative prayer and thank you for the opportunity to review them and I hope that your friend does get them published.
Yours in Christ, Fr. Pat
Having read Brother Bernard Francis SFO recent collection of poems entitled Saints Thérèse of Lisieux & Francis of Assisi, My Companions on the Journey
I can honestly say it is very hard once you start them to put them down. While the theme of a journey with his companion saints is very evident from just the title, when you start reading his poetry I think you will find that they truly are a collection from a holy man of God who has a gift for describing that journey not through prose but in the ancient language of the psalmists, poetry.
I would highly recommend that while they can be read in a very short amount of time, please try to actually use them as a way of assisting your prayer life, maybe a form of prayer that you are not yet familiar with but given a chance may help you to bear fruits of your own. The recurrent theme in this collection is God’s love for us, as seen both in the personal relationship with our Lord but also in our relationships with our fellow sojourners that God places into our