In the first section, we feature the Minister General’s letter for Easter (p. 4) along with Friar Carlos TROVARELLI’s presentation of the Projects Office (p. 5).
After the section on the sessions of the General Definitory (p. 7), you can read the latest news from the General Procuration Office (pp. 9-10).
Among the items from the General Offices (pp. 11-41), it is important that we highlight the Minister General’s prayer honoring the 300th anniversary of entrusting the Order to the Immaculate Conception (p. 13), the appointment of our former Minister General Friar Marco TASCA as Archbishop of Genoa (p. 18), the letter of Pope Francis on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the entrance of St Anthony of Padua into Franciscan religious life (p. 26), and the posthumous awarding of the Order of the White Eagle to Friar Łucjan KRÓLIKOWSKI (p. 37).
With regard to the Federations (pp. 43-66), we invite you to read the pages on the ongoing missionary commitment in Uganda (p. 43), the jubilee of St. Nicholas TAVELIĆ (p. 46), the anniversary of the martyrdom of Friar Casimir CYPHER (p. 48), our twenty-five years of presence in Chile (p. 51) and the priestly ordinations in Belarus (p. 57), Poland (p. 58), and the Czech Republic (p. 61).
Finally, there is news on the Chapters in Poland, namely, Gdańsk (p. 67), and Cracow (p. 68), and personal statistics (p. 69).
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