PFSGM Vocational Blog

St. Jerome (347 - † 420) recounts: Many years ago, when for the kingdom of heaven's sake I had cut myself off from home, parents, sister,...

His father, who was an important officer in the army of the Roman Empire, gave him the name Martin in honor of Mars, the god of war. He...

From the "Life of St. Anthony," written by St. Athanasius After the death of his father and mother he was left alone with one little...

From the Confessions of St. Augustine (Book VIII, 29): I was saying these things and weeping in the most bitter contrition of my heart,...

From the Legend of St. Clare (Ch. IV, 2-8) “The Solemnity of the Day of the Palms was at hand when the young girl [Clare] went with a...

From Pope Benedict XVI, General Audience, 3 March 2010: [St. Bonaventure] was called Giovanni di Fidanza. An episode that occurred when...

“When I wished at one period to be filled with great quietness, and to shun the path of men, I used to go into a certain field not far...

From the Franciscan sources: “The truth of Francis’ teaching was brought home to people by the simplicity of his way of life, and two...

Anselm, who since childhood as his biographer recounts imagined that the good Lord dwelled among the towering, snow-capped peaks of the...

A summary of Vocational Video 8.10 with reflections from Friar Volantino Verde Throughout history, and even today, we see a pattern where...