Why do you look for the living among the dead. He is not here. He is risen!".May Easter be for each of you readers a time of new hope and peace.
I am in California as I write, out to celebrate with the friars of the Western American Province one hundred years since the first Irish Capuchins came over. The re-constituted Irish Province was only in existence for some 26 years when the bishop of Baker Diocese invited the Irish friars to come to help with the evangelization of the area. And they came. First came two friars, and stories abound of the missionary treks of one of them, Br. Luke Sheehan, on horseback, sharing food and a blanket with a lonesome but hospitable cowboy, meeting Ku Klux Klan opposition on the way, but persevering despite the odds. Two friaries were founded in 1910 in Hermiston and Bend in Oregon.
The area became a full-fledged Province of the Order in 1979 when Brendan O'Mahony was Provincial Minister in Ireland. Our General Minister will be arriving for the occasion, with celebrations in 5 venues: Watts (South Los Angeles), St Francis High School in Pasadena, the Old Mission in Santa Ynez and San Lorenzo, and finally in the parish in Burlingame. A good fraternal celebration is assured!
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