Tag: Letter

Rome, July 14, 2024  Dear confreres, On July 14, 2004, the first General Custos in Russia, Friar Gregory CIOROCH, lost his life in Belarus while returning...

On June 24th of this year, I was saddened to hear the news of the death of our confrere Archbishop Gianfranco Agostino GARDIN, former Minister General and member of the Italian Province of St. Anthony of Padua (Northern Italy). He led our Order with fraternal wisdom and foresight from 1995 to 2001, before being consecrated a bishop (August 26, 2006) and taking on the role of Secretary of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. Finally, he passionately served the Church in Treviso, Italy, as a diocesan bishop from 2009 to 2019.

On March 19, 2024, the Conference of Ministers General of the Franciscan First Order and the Third Order Regular published a letter on Spiritual...

On February 2, 2024, the feast of the Presentation of the Lord, the Ministers General of the First Order and the Third Order Regular...

TO THE MEMBERS  OF THE FRANCISCAN FAMILY  Dear Brothers and Sisters, It is with joy in my heart that I wish to send you my best wishes...

We are about to embark on the four-year journey of the 2023-2026 Franciscan Centenary...

On World Mission Day, which we celebrate each year on the penultimate Sunday of October, we recall with gratitude all those men and women who by their testimony of life help us to renew our baptismal commitment to be generous and joyful apostles of the Gospel.

The eightieth anniversary of the death of St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe and the fiftieth anniversary of his beatification are an occasion to reflect on his spiritual legacy, marked by love

Prot N. 0464/2021 Rome, May 1, 2021 Friar Damian-Gheorghe Pătrașcu and the Provincial Fraternity Province of St. Joseph, Spouse of the B.V.M. in Romania Celebratory Letter on the occasion...

Prot. N. 101/2021 Tokyo, February 5, 2021 “Oh, that today you would hear his voice, harden not your hearts...” (Heb 3:7-8; cf. Ps 95:7-8)   Toward Communal Holiness, Namely, Opposing the...