Random clips form coast-to-coast tour of America
This is the Franciscan Hermitage of the Blessed Sacrament, located 17 miles outside of Stevens Point in the city of Custer. This is a unique place as most Franciscans do not build ministries that function more like a monistray. Their new chapel is beutiful and full of color statues. What I like best about this sacerd space is the oversized crusifix on the left hand side of the Chapel.
Hosting the largest collection of mosaics in the world, Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis is one of the inspiring places of worship and prayer I have ever visited.
Mission Santa Inés (sometimes spelled Santa Ynez) is a Spanish mission in the present-day city of Solvang, California. Founded on September 17, 1804 by Father Estévan TapÃs of the Franciscan order, the mission site was chosen as a midway point between Mission Santa Barbara and Mission La PurÃsima Concepción, and was designed to relieve overcrowding at those two missions and to serve the Indians living east of the Coast Range.
The Mission was home to the first learning institution in Alta California and today serves as a museum as well as a parish church of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Mission Santa Barbara, also known as Santa Barbara Mission, is a Spanish mission founded by the Franciscan order near present-day Santa Barbara, California. It was founded December 4, 1786, the feast day of Saint Barbara, as the tenth mission for the religious conversion of the indigenous localChumash—Barbareño tribe of Native American people. The mission is the namesake of the city of Santa Barbara as well asSanta Barbara County.
Founded in 1797 by Father Lasuen to complete the mission chain from San Luis Obispo to Mission Dolores in San Francisco, San Miguel was located in the Salinas Valley as a mid point between the San Luis Obispo and San Antonio Missions. Under the direction of Esteban Munros, the Indians painted the walls and ceilings with ornate designs; the original murals are today the best preserved in California. San Miguel had no bell tower, its 2,000 lb. bell rang out from a wooden platform in front of the mission and now sits in its own campanario behind the church. The mission has an annual fiesta on the third Sunday in September to celebrate the Feast Day of its patron, Saint Michael, chief of the Archangels and Prince of the Heavenly Armies.
This is one of the oldest European structures in Arizona, founded in 1692 and completion of the current building in 1797. The location is just 9 mile south of downtown Tucson.
This is a Franciscan retreat center in Scottsdale, Arizona. They offer a wide range of retreats as well as private prayer space and a prayer labyrinth.
The wonderful beach we spent Easter Sunday afternoon at in OC Califoriana.
This is another Franciscan Californian mission that we visited, to bad it closes so early as was not able to get in. Still it was cool to see from the outside and just be in the space.
This is 1 of 21 of many "missions" that the Spanish used to help bring Christianity and civilization to what is today California.
