Tag: India
India: Simple and Solemn Professions
On Tuesday, May 14, 2024, a number of friars from the Province of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe in India professed their simple or solemn...
India: First Vocation from the West Bengal Mission Professes Simple Vows
On Thursday, May 9, 2024, a momentous occasion took place in the religious history of India: The Conventual Franciscan friars of the mission in...
India: Blessing of New St. Joseph Friary in Daldali
On May 6, 2024, the Conventual Franciscan friars of the Mission in India , a joint mission of the Province of St. Paul the...
India: 2024 Assembly for All Solemnly Professed
On May 1-3, 2024, the Province of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe in India conducted its annual fraternal assembly of all solemnly professed friars. The...
India: 2024 Meeting for Junior Priests
On April 29-30, 2024, the Province of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe in India conducted its 2024 Meeting for Junior Priests at Assisi Shanthi Kendra,...
India: Priestly Ordinations and First Masses
In April of 2024, God blessed the Conventual Franciscan Province of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe in India with an abundance of new priests. On...
India: Minor Orders and Renewal of Vows
On Wednesday, March 20, 2024, at 10:30 a.m., three student friars from the Province of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe in India were ordained to...
India: Inter-Seminary Volleyball Tournament in Memory of FriarJames KUNCHERAKATT
On January 30-31, 2024, an Inter-Seminary volleyball tournament was held in honor of the late Friar James KUNCHERAKATT, OFM Conv. (†2005), a gregarious friar...
India: From the Rule to the Wounds of St. Francis
On January 19-20, 2024, the pre-novices, novices, and all the students of the major seminary at the Belvedere Ashram in Kotagir, India, and the...
India: OFS National Elective Chapter
On January 13-15, 2024, the national fraternity of the Secular Franciscan Order (OFS) in India celebrated its 17th National Elective Chapter. The theme of...
Croatia: Friar Mateo VUJČIĆ Celebrates First Mass
On Sunday, July 6, 2025, at 11:00 a.m., Friar Mateo VUJČIĆ of the Province of St. Jerome in Croatia, celebrated his first Mass. The...
Colombia: 2025 Annual Spiritual Retreat and Start of the Second Novitiate Program
From June 30 to July 4, 2025, the Friars Minor Conventual of the Custody of St. Francis of Assisi in Colombia gathered in a...
Chile: Winter Mission in Chequenlemu
Testimony
On June 19-22, 2025, we, the Franciscan Youth Pastoral group from the Jesús de Nazaret Parish in Curicó, Chile, carried out some mission work...
Poland: Finale of “The Mirror of Carpathian Cultures. Prologue”
On Saturday, July 5, 2025, a folk festival took place in Arłamów, Poland. The festival continued the next day in Kalwaria Pacławska, Poland. The...
First Ordinary Chapter of the Italian Province of Saint Joseph of Cupertino (Part II)
From June 30 to July 4, 2025, the second part of the first Ordinary Chapter of the new Italian Province of St. Joseph of...