Tag: Central America
Provincial Custody of Mary, Mother of Mercy in Central America Celebrates...
From Monday, December 1, to Friday, December 5, 2025, the Provincial Custody of Mary Mother of Mercy in Central America celebrated its 3rd Ordinary...
Franciscan Formation Meetings in Central America and Colombia
The General Spiritual Assistant to the Secular Franciscan Order (OFS) Friar Ștefan ACATRINEI, recently visited some OFS fraternities in the Americas. His visits were...
Central America: Conventual Franciscan Formation Meeting
On Saturday, October 5, 2024, the Formation Commission of the Provincial Custody of Mary, Mother of Mercy in Central America, convened all the friars...
49th Anniversary of the Death of Friar Casimir CYPHER Celebrated
On June 17-25, 2024, Friars Juan Alonzo PAGOADA ACOSTA and José Isael SARMIENTO SARMIENTO, both members of the Custody of Mary, Mother of Mercy...
Central America-Ecuador: Second Novitiate
From Friday February 16, to Sunday March 17, 2024, Friar Oscar David GAÓN MARTÍNEZ of the Provincial Delegation in Ecuador and Friars Leoncio Obed...
Conventual Franciscan Mission Presences around the World – XXVI
Provincial Custody of Mary, Mother of Mercy in Central America
Mother Province: Province of Our Lady of Consolation in the USA (OLC)
In 1945, friars from...
Friar Casimir CYPHER: Faithful Witness of the Gospel and the Mission...
“Friar Casimir was visiting our community of El Carbon in San Esteban. I remember a group of us men met him in the neighboring...
Central America: 2023 Custodial Spiritual Retreat
For St. Francis of Assisi, the life of union with God was the foundation and raison d’être of fraternity. Francis constantly asked his brothers...
Central America: Fraternal Visit of the Assistant General
From July 27 to August 11, 2022, the Assistant General for the Federación América Latina Conventuales (FALC), Friar Rogério PEREIRA XAVIER, made a fraternal...
Friar Casimir CYPHER: An Ordinary Life Made Extraordinary
Have you ever wondered how to make the ordinary things in your life extraordinary? That is what Friar Casimir CYPHER did in his lifetime....
Kolbe Exhibit in Carini During Gathering of M.I. of Sicily
On February 14, 2026, an exhibition recounting the life, activities, and heroic sacrifice of the martyr from Poland was inaugurated and blessed at the...
Portugal: Delegation Retreat: “The World as Our Cloister”
On February 8-12, 2026, the eleven friars of the Provincial Delegation in Portugal gathered in Fátima, Portugal, for their annual retreat. Friars from the...
Mexico: Day of Solidarity and Blessing at Cinco Panes y Dos Peces Franciscan Center
On February 11, 2026, in connection with World Day of the Sick and the memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes, the Cinco Panes y...
Three Continuing Formation Courses in the Italian Province of the Immaculate Conception
0n January 19-23 and again on February 7-8, 2026, three continuing formation courses were held at the Kolbe Center – Villa Belvedere in Carini,...
Brazil: 3rd Custodial Meeting for Men in Formation and Profession of Simple Vows
On February 2-7, 2026, the Provincial Custody of St. Bonaventure in Brazil (Maranhão) conducted its third annual meeting for men in formation. The event...