Why this blog/website

On October 10, 2015, Holy Cross Friary in Quincy, Illinois honored Fr. John Joseph Lakers, OFM ("Father JJ") at a banquet in a Quincy hotel. At that dinner, Mary Ann Klein, a close friend of his, suggested that I make his later writings available on a website.

I had done this at an earlier time, but the website service was discontinued. This is a new attempt to make those writings available.

JJ wrote a lot during the last years of his life, but his writing was not organized. He refused to use a mouse, and did not know how to move text in his Wordperfect 1995 software. So he simply wrote things again, as ideas came to mind.

Much of his later writing was intended to be published in a second book, in six chapters, as a follow-up to his first book, published by Franciscan Press in 1996, titled Christian Ethics: An Ethics of Intimacy. Copies of this book are available for $10.00 upon request (to me).

I will begin entering materials on this site with dated writings, beginning in 2001. Some of these writings he may have intended as part of the second book, but many appear to be his reflections on events of the day.

Joseph Zimmerman, OFM
October 11, 2015