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Joyful announcement: Look forward to a Chapter of Mats in 2024
With great joy Minister General Tibor Kauser announces a Chapter of Mats for the Secular Franciscan Order and YouFra to be held November 14-19, 2024 in Rome, Italy. This will immediately follow the 2024 General Chapter. It is a way to celebrate the 800th anniversaries of important events in the life of St. Francis. National …
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In keeping with the 2021-2023 synodal process, we thought it would be important to call the attention of Secular Franciscans to the importance of living their faith in a spirit of communion, participation, mission and true witness of gospel life in the Church, in the world of work and in the family. The best way …
OFS remember first minister general
The Secular Franciscan Order remembers Manuela Mattioli on the 30th anniversary of her death on Nov. 3. She was the first OFS minister general following the 1978 Rule from St. Pope Paul VI and the reorganization into a worldwide order. Letter from Minister General Tibor Kauser About Manuela Mattioli by 30th Anniversary Committee
Check out the latest issue of Vox Franciscana
The summer/fall issue of Vox Franciscana is now available and features: a glimpse of the workings and personalities of the CIOFS Presidency. how a Presidency councilor wakes up to war in the Ukraine. how the OFS of Italy is helping injured and ill children from war-torn Ukraine. a report on the six-year experience of an …
CIOFS establishes fund for Ukraine OFS and shares banking information to help refugees
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SECULAR FRANCISCAN LEADERSHIP FRATELLI TUTTI: SOCIAL FRIENDSHIP AS A WAY OF EVANGELIZATION FOR THE OFS Fr. Pedro Zitha, OFM Introduction We are living in a period in which individualism has become the “modus vivendi” and, consequently, the value of safeguarding the brother no longer makes sense. The other or the others no longer count anything; …
Vox Franciscana magazine covers General Chapter
The spirit of the General Chapter is the theme for the winter issue of Vox Franciscana. The magazine provides extensive coverage, including the historic visit with Pope Francis.