Mission and Ministry - Reflections

August
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Reflection Week of August 11 2025

08/14/2025

On August 11, the Franciscan family celebrates the feast of St. Clare of Assisi 1193/94-1253, the first woman to join Francis and his brothers in their new Gospel way of life.

July
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March

Incarnate Word Week - UIW Core Values

03/24/2025

UIW's core values center on education, truth, faith, service, and innovation. They emphasize ethical leadership, lifelong learning, community engagement, and a commitment to addressing global needs through a values-based education.

Reflection

03/10/2025

Tell me, how are we supposed to be the “Pilgrims of Hope” Pope Francis asks us to be when every headline in today’s news is worse than they were yesterday?

Reflection Lent March 3, 2025

03/03/2025

As Christian-Catholics, we all know the basics of Lent, expressly, Lent is a 40-day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending on Holy Thursday.

February
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Christmas Message Fall 2024

02/25/2025

The Gospel of Luke relates the birth of Jesus by presenting the first Emperor in all his grandeur and immediately thereafter bringing us to Bethlehem, where there is no grandeur at all: just a poor child wrapped in swaddling clothes, with shepherds standing by.