DURHAM, N.C. — The Emily Krzyzewski Family Life Center celebrated its history last month with a Founders’ Day gala, commemorating both the center’s community involvement and a friar instrumental in its creation. Close to 18 years ago, the friars of Immaculate Conception Church, led by then-pastor David McBriar, OFM, proposed a neighborhood center to Mike Krzyzewski, a parishioner and head basketball …
Franciscan Influences: Guiding a Faith Journey
This essay is part of a series in which laypeople describe the impact the friars have had on them. The most recent reflection, published in the April 16 issue of HNP Today, was written by a parishioner of Immaculate Conception Parish in Durham, N.C. Growing up, I had a very definitive sense of Church. I attended what’s now a basilica and it’s …
HNP Ministries Honor Our Lady of Guadalupe
Friars and their Latino brothers and sisters gathered earlier this month to celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe — the patroness of the Americas — who is officially recognized on Dec. 12. For some, the feast commemorations began with the annual running of the torch, a flame carried by joggers from the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe …