Duluth welcomed me well when I moved here. She pulled out all the stops, and I received her gifts well – pulling out my camera. I came here to serve as a FOCUS missionary at UMD, and these students showed me the sights. Praise and worship in the great outdoors? Yes, please.
Praise and prayer, prayer and praise. It was the feast day of Saint Francis of Assisi, a saint who, to say the least, loved the outdoors and extraordinarily modeled the art of encountering God there. Seyha, our musician, happened to have several spare Franciscan rosaries, blessed by Pope Francis, so to pray with them seemed only right. It was a very Francis day.  (To learn more about the Franciscan rosary, check it out here: http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=168542)Rocks and rivers, bless the Lord. Saint Francis of Assisi, pray for us!