Garrett Galvin was born in December of 1968 in Wilmington, Delaware and joined the friars in 1992. He was ordained in 2000 and worked in parishes in San Francisco and Oceanside for three years, primarily in Latino Ministry, before returning to studies. After receiving his doctorate from the Catholic University of America, he began teaching full time at Franciscan School of Theology and the Graduate Theological Union in 2009, where he taught a variety of courses on the Old and New Testament as well as Hebrew. In 2011 he published a book entitled Egypt as a Place of Refuge. He is also the author of David’s Successors: Kingship in the Old Testament (2016) as well as chapters in The Paulist Biblical Commentary (2018) and The Jerome Biblical Commentary for the Twenty-First Century (2022). He has served as President of the Franciscan School of Theology at the University of San Diego since 2019.
Learn how Franciscan contemplative prayer is not just for monks or cloistered nuns. Praying as a Franciscan is not based on methodology, but on grace, desire, and love. It’s all about relationship.
Fr. Garrett explores key concepts within Genesis 1 and see how they influenced St. Francis and his successors.
We will discover how much St. Francis was motivated by a biblical vision through looking at five elements of Franciscan spirituality and discovering their scriptural basis within the writings of St. Francis.
