Father Bernie Palka, SA, who embodied the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement’s creed of healing the broken and those who have lost their way, passed into Eternal Life on Saturday, January 8 at the age of 77.
On Saturday, January 8, Father Martin Carter, SA, was laid to rest at the Friars’ cemetery at Graymoor, following a Mass of Christian burial at the Our Lady of the Atonement Chapel.
We are pleased to announce the opening of our South American Novitiate in Lima, Peru, with the first class of six novices inducted on January 2, and two other men expected to join soon.
Please join the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement for a live-streamed Ecumenical Service of the Word in observation of the 2022 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
The Friars of the Atonement unite ourselves in prayer to the victims of the devastating tornados in the U.S. South and Midwest on December 10-11, 2021.