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Guide for OFS Fraternal Animators for Franciscan Youth
The YouFra Commission has released updated “Guidelines for Fraternal Animators.” GUIDE FOR FRATERNAL ANIMATORS OFS
Feast of St. Francis: a time to renew, to go out to serve
By Tibor Kauser, OFS general minister Remembering the last times of the life of Saint Francis, this might echo in our ears: “Let us begin,
For Holy Land: A day of prayer and fasting on Oct. 7
Letter from OFS minister general on praying and fasting for peace in the Holy Land Letter from OFM minister general
October 2024: St. Anna Schäffer (1882-1925)
Lay mystic; Franciscan tertiary; born in Mindelstetten (between Regensburg and Ingolstadt), Bavaria, Germany, on February 18, 1882. She died in Mindelstetten on October 5, 1925.
October 2024: JOHN XXIII (1881-1963)
ANGELO GIUSEPPE RONCALLI was born in Sotto il Monte, in the Diocese and Province of Bergamo, on 25 November 1881. The fourth of thirteen children,
Letter on Stigmata: Beyond Mount La Verna
General Minister’s Message: How Has Christ Transformed Us?