Saint Francis House30 Broad Street/ PO Box 2185 • New London, CT 06320 |
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Saint Francis House is a "place of prayer, a house of hospitality, and a center for peace and justice ministry in New London, Connecticut." The people who live here constitute an intentional Christian community, modeled in part on the Catholic Worker, seeking conversion of life for themselves through friendship with and service to God and our neighbors. We pray together daily, ground our life in Bible study, and do the work we believe God is calling us to in our inner city neighborhood. While we are not a monastic community, we live under a common rule of simplicity of life, chastity in relationships, and obedience to the Gospel. We see our life together as an "experiment with truth" in the tradition of Gandhian nonviolence. We offer ourselves as the "raw materials" of this experiment and trust that God will use as we learn to "do whatever he tells us." (John 2:5) |