Rite of Beginning Fraternity
On July 5 at the Franciscan House of Studies on Chicago’s North Side, we welcomed
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.
On July 5 at the Franciscan House of Studies on Chicago’s North Side, we welcomed
The Province of Our Lady of Consolation recently held a Province Assembly on Interculturality and
Friar Joseph Wood, Assistant General for the Conventual Franciscan Friars (CFF), continued his canonical visitations
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