The Whole World is a Friary. 4th October - Feast of St Francis of Assisi

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When St Francis of Assisi had rebuilt a tumbledown little church given to him by the Benedictines, he called it St Mary of the Angels. It was here, over eight hundred years ago, that he heard God speaking to him through the Gospels while attending Mass. The message was simple – now that your time living as a hermit is over, you and your disciples must go out, preaching the Gospel to all as Jesus had done with his disciples. Francis so loved this little church that he said it would always be the hub and the home of his Franciscan Family for ever. When the first friars landed in America they immediately built a church and called it after that little church that St Francis had rebuilt with his own hands. Naturally they called it after their spiritual home, St Mary of the Angels or in the Spanish language that they spoke: - Santa Maria de los Ángeles. The town that grew up around it took the same name, until it came to be known simply as Los Angeles, as it is still known today.    read on....

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