Tag: Oriente e Terra Santa
Orient and the Holy Land: Formation Days
On April 21-23, 2021, the friars of the Provincial Custody of the Orient and the Holy Land met online to participate in three days...
Orient and the Holy Land: Fraternal Visit
On September 20-28, 2019, Friar Giovanni VOLTAN, the new Assistant General for the Federazione Inter-mediterranea Ministri Provinciali (FIMP), made his first visit to the...
Lebanon: Mass of Thanksgiving
“We are all invited to choose our boat and embark towards other shores in the direction of new horizons”. Thus Friar Dominique MATHIEU began...
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...
Lebanon: Franciscan Family Retreat
On Saturday, February 16, 2019, friars and sisters of the nine Franciscan families of Lebanon gathered together for a day of spiritual retreat. This...
Orient and Holy Land: Ordinary Custodial Chapter – Part II
On July 2-6, 2018, the friars of the Provincial Custody of the Orient and the Holy Land celebrated the second part of their Ordinary...
Great Britain-Ireland: Custodial Chapter Part I
From September 14–18, 2026, the Provincial Custody of Bl. Agnellus of Pisa in Great Britain-Ireland held the first part of its Custodial Chapter in...
USA: Second Meeting on Causes for Canonization
On September 12–13, 2026, the second annual “Saints on Their Way” meeting took place at the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in...
New Study on the Three Families of the Franciscan First Order: Evolution and Identity
The journal Studi Francescani has published a book by Friar Felice AUTIERI titled The Three Families of the Franciscan First Order: Evolution and Identity from the 16th...
Spirit of Assisi in Zambia: Between Theory and Practice
The next leg of the Spirit of Assisi mission took me back to Africa, this time to Zambia, where I stayed from August 31...
Brooklyn: CANTICO, a Franciscan Prayer Circuit for the Year of St. Francis
On July 15, 2026, the Feast of St. Bonaventure, Most Holy Trinity–St. Mary Church in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, USA, inaugurated...