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In 2025, we will celebrate the 800th anniversary of the composition of the Canticle of Brother Sun. In the spring of 1225, shortly after his experience at La Verna, St. Francis of Assisi chose to spend fifty days at the Monastery of San Damiano, where St. Clare and the first Poor Sisters lived. During his …
Opening of the Eighth Centenary of the Canticle of Brother Sun Read More »
General Minister’s Message: How Has Christ Transformed Us?
A formation program for the Franciscan Centenary of 2024. Franciscan Centenary 2024 (PDF)
All members of the Franciscan Family, both religious and lay, are invited to the Sanctuary of La Verna, Italy, on Friday, January 5, 2024, to attend the solemn inauguration of the 800th anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata. The event is entitled: “From Wounds, New Life.” It can also be followed via …
800th anniversary celebration of the Stigmata begins Jan. 5 at La Verna Read More »
Coinciding with the Franciscan centenary celebration of the anniversary of promulgation of the Later Rule in Rome on the 29th of November, all members of the Franciscan family in Nazareth came together to celebrate. The celebration included a mass in the Grotto in the Basilica of the Annunciation, presided over by Fr. Wojciech Bołoz, OFM, …
Franciscan Family of Nazareth: Celebrating 800 years of the Rule Read More »
The pope’s special message to members of the Franciscan Family was read at St. John Lateran Basilica on the anniversary of the rule approved by Pope Honorious III on 29 November 1223. Pope Francis’ Letter to the Franciscan Family (PDF)
Invitation to the Lateran celebration of the Rule
Letter from Conference of the Franciscan Family
800 years of the rule and the crib in Greccio (PDF) Letter from Formation Secretariat (PDF)
