On January 8-13, 2025, Friar Dariusz MAZUREK, the Secretary General of the General Secretariat for Mission Animation (SGAM) and Friar Piotr STANISŁAWCZYK, the Secretary General of the General Secretariat for Formation (SGF), visited the formation houses in Zagreb, Croatia.

The purpose of these visits was to meet with young men and friars participating in initial stages of formation, namely, those in the minor seminary, the postulancy program and the post-novitiate. Friar Piotr presented the basic outlines of the Franciscan formation experience, in both its initial and ongoing phases, contained in the current versions of Franciscan Discipleship and Ratio studiorum. Friar Dariusz discussed topics related to missiology and Conventual Franciscan missionary activities; he showed the real faces and places that comprise our missions around the world.
Special thanks to the Minister Provincial of the Province of St. Jerome in Croatia, Friar Miljenko HONTIĆ, to the Guardian of Zagreb, and to the formators and the individual friars for their great kindness and hospitality. We thank the Lord for all the confreres we met and we will pray for them.

Friar Dariusz MAZUREK, SGAM Secretary General
Friar Piotr STANISŁAWCZYK, SGF Secretary General