St. Michael the Archangel Fraternity at 122 West Smith St, Apt. D, Hicksville, OH 43526 US - Home
Welcome to our growing Secular Franciscan Order at St. Michael parish in Hicksville, Ohio. We are a new Order of professed men and women who live in the world but are devoted to prayer and service to our fellow Christians. We hope you enjoy our website. If you have any questions please contact us.
St. Michael Unveils It's New Fraternity Banner!
St. Michael the Archangel Fraternity recently presented it's new banner at a Fraternity Gathering. The banner was made by Candidate Carol Schaefer. She was given a round of applause at the meeting for her hard work. Brother Tim Husted is now in ...
Formation Lessons for "To Live as Francis Lived" and "The Perfect Joy of St. Francis"
Formation Director, David Grimes, will now have the Candidate lessons at his Catholic Apologetics website. Since we have limited space and David's site doesn't he decided to accomplish this from his own site. He'll have an outline for ...
Who are the Secular Franciscans?
Recently I have received a lot of questions about who the Secular Franciscans are and what our role in the Church is. I thought that the easiest way to get the information out ...
True Wealth
About 2 months ago my niece announced to our family that she was checking ...
September Day
Sts. Joachim and Anne had long awaited for a daughter. Their fervent prayers to God had been answered. St. Anne knew she was the most special child to bless any couple for all time. It was September 8 and the Blessed Virgin Mary had come ...
A Short Biography of St. Francis
In the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri describes Assisi as the Orient, the place where the sun rises (Canto XI Paradiso, 52-54). In fact, he compares Francis to the rising sun. It is within this mediaeval context of cosmology that we have to understand the ...
The Stigmata
St. Francis of Assisi was the first to receive the stigmata or wounds of Our Lord on his body. In 1224 he retired to La Verna with three companions and while praying on the mountainside beheld the vision of the seraph, as a sequel of which there appeared on ...
Did You Know that.....
- More books have been written about St. Francis than about any other saint
- He is the patron saint of peace, the patron saint of ecology, the patron saint of Italy and the patron saint of animals
- His "Canticle of Brother Sun" was the ...
An Explanation of the Tau
The Franciscan symbol of the "crossed arms" depicts the arms of Jesus and Francis crossed over the Tau, both bearing the imprint of the Crucifixion nails. Francis' arm is enclosed in the sleeve of his habit. It is a ...