Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Assisi

In the Footsteps of St. Francis: A Spiritual Retreat for Senior Friars

On September 10-19, 2023, some senior friars from Poland went on a spiritual retreat in Italy. The idea for the retreat came from the Vicar...
Polonia

Poland: Simple Profession on the Feast of the Stigmata

On September 17, 2023, the Feast of the Stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi, Friar Krzysztof ZAJĄC of the Province of St. Anthony and...
Cechia

Czech Republic: Fraternity and Formation Week

On September 3-8, 2023, the friars of the Province of Sts. Cyril and Methodius in the Czech Republic met for their yearly fraternity and...
Ucraina

Ukraine: Dovhenke – The Smell of War

A Visit to a Village Liberated from Russian Occupation On August 2-4, 2023, the Custos of the Provincial Custody of the Holy Cross in Ukraine,...
Polonia

Poland: 2023-24 Novitiate Year Begins

On September 5, 2023, after completing their year of religious formation as postulants, in Gniezno, Poland, seven candidates began their novitiate year in the...
Kalwaria Pacławska

Poland: Patronal Feast in Kalwaria Pacławska

On August 15, 2023, the solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, His Eminence, Cardinal Mauro GAMBETTI, OFM Conv., the Vicar General...
Niepokalanów Lasek

Niepokalanów Lasek: Summer Retreats for Children and Youth

From July 31 to August 26, 2023, a series of summer retreats for children and youth were conducted at the friary in Niepokalanów Lasek,...
Assisi

Assisi: Spiritual Retreat for Solemnly Professed Friars of the FEMO Federation

On July 12-19, 2023, the Franciscanum community in Assisi hosted a group of friars from the Foederatio Europae Mediae et Orientalis (FEMO). The group, composed...
Ucraina

Ukraine: Residents of Mats’kivtsi Surviving the War under the Protection of the Mother of...

Mats’kivtsi is a village in the Khmelnytskyi region of Ukraine. In 2010, the Conventual Franciscans built the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed...
Cracovia

Poland: Cracow Nativity Scene Exhibition in Homage to St. Francis

On July 14, 2023, the Conventual Franciscans of Cracow launched an exhibition of Cracow’s world-famous nativity scenes. The event took place to mark the...