Renewing Our Commitment to Ecological Conversion
In a letter to Franciscans worldwide, the Ministers General of the Franciscan Family and the
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"The Lord gave me some brothers."
–St. Francis of Assisi, Testament
Conventuals speak in the name of something greater than ourselves. We are not a collection of individual voices, but a chorus harmonizing for the advancement of the Kingdom. Francis understood the men who came to follow him as a gift from the Lord; he received and celebrated that gift! The friars’ life in fraternity is the heart of our charism and exists as our primary mission. Community life, in the Franciscan vision, is an end in and of itself.
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Phase Two UNC Chapel Hill Newman Center
On September 28, 2025, the community gathered to celebrate the completion of phase two of
Announcing the 800th Anniversary of the Easter of St. Francis
On October 4, 2025, Feast Day for St. Francis of Assisi, Friar Carlos Trovarelli, Minister
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