Tag: Minister General
From the Minister General to All the Friars of the Order
Greeting to the Friars on the Solemnity of St. Francis of Assisi
Dear brothers, on this solemnity I wish to send my heartfelt best wishes...
India: St. Bonaventure Franciscan Ashram
A long awaited dream of the Province of St. Maximilian Kolbe in India has finally become a reality. On Sunday, August 25, 2019, the...
Friar Carlos Alberto TROVARELLI – the new Minister General
On May 25, 2019, the Ordinary General Chapter of the Friars Minor Conventual elected Friar Carlos Alberto TROVARELLI as the new Minister General of...
Croatia: General Definitory Session and Spiritual Retreat
On April 1-12, 2019, the General Definitory, led by the Minister General, Friar Marco TASCA, met for its fiftieth session and for a spiritual...
Turkey: Missionary Martyrs’ Day
On March 24, the “Day of Prayer and Fasting in Memory of Missionary Martyrs” will be celebrated. This Day was established in 1993, as...
Rome: Feast Day at the Seraphicum
St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio was the focal point of a celebration held Thursday, March 14, 2019, at the Pontifical Theological Faculty of St. Bonaventure...
Vietnam: New Formation House and Friary
At 5:30 p.m., on March 2, 2019, more than a hundred people, including priests, religious, families, benefactors and friars gathered at the Annunciation Friary...
Rome: Requiem for Friar Donald Kos
On February 21, 2019, a Requiem Mass was celebrated for Friar Donald KOS to commemorate the anniversary of his death (February 4, 2018). The...
Indonesia: 50 Years of Presence in Sumatra
The first three Conventual Franciscan missionaries in Sumatra set out from Italy and arrived in the country on February 6, 1968.
After spending a few...
Rome: Revised Constitutions Approved
On this day, November 29, 2018, the Feast of All Franciscan Saints and the anniversary of the solemn approval of the Rule of St....
Conventual Franciscan Presences around the World (IV)
Lithuania: Provincial Delegation in Lithuania,
of the Province of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe in Poland (Gdańsk)
The Jurisdiction currently has ten solemnly professed friars and three...
Commemorating Friar Martin de Porres WARD
The people of Andrelândia, Brazil, and the friars of the Provincial Custody of the Immaculate Conception of the B.V.M. in Brazil, continue to honor...
Sicily-Calabria: Solemn Profession of Friar Alberto
On Saturday, April 6, 2024, Friar Alberto BARBARO professed his solemn vows into the hands of the Minister Provincial of the Italian Province of...
Assisi: Presentation of the Declaration Fiducia supplicans on the Pastoral Meaning of Blessings
On the afternoon of Wednesday, April 10, 2024, the friars of the General Custody of the Sacred Convent of St. Francis of Assisi in...
Vienna: 2024 CEF Assembly
Once a year, the members of the Centralis Europae Foederatio (CEF) hold an assembly the week after Easter, in conjunction with the “Juniorentreffen” meeting...