Tag: Priestly Ordination
Kenya: Priestly Ordination of Three Friars
On March 22, 2025, the Province of St. Francis of Assisi in Kenya had the great joy of celebrating the priestly ordination of Friars...
Province of Mexico: Priestly Ordinations
Wednesday, February 5, 2025, was a special day for the Province of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico. Two of its friars, Friar Bernardino...
Brazil-Araruama: Priestly Ordination of Friar Fernando
On February 22, 2025, the Provincial Custody of the Immaculate Conception of the B.V.M. in Brazil joyfully celebrated the priestly ordination of Friar Fernando...
Brazil: Priestly Ordination of Friar Gustavo Jonas
On February 15, 2025, Friar Gustavo Jonas ROCHA DE MEDEIROS, a member of the Province of St. Francis of Assisi in Brazil, was ordained...
First Priestly Ordination of a Conventual Friar in Odisha: A Historic...
On Tuesday, January 21, 2025, the Conventual Franciscan community in Odisha State, India, witnessed a historic event as Deacon Friar Aniyanta RAITA became the...
Rome: Priestly Ordination at Saints Peter and Paul
On Saturday, January 18, 2025, Friar Roberto LIGGERI of the Italian Province of St. Francis of Assisi (Central Italy) was ordained to the priesthood...
Ghana: Priestly Ordination in the Custody
On January 11, 2025, the Provincial Custody of St. Anthony of Padua in Ghana celebrated its first priestly ordination of the year. On that...
India: Three Friars Ordained to the Priesthood
On January 12, 2025, at 2:00 p.m., three friars of the Province of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe in India, namely, Friars Limson PADAYATTY, Jithin...
Cannara-Italy: Priestly Ordination of Friar Ettore FILIPPUCCI
On Saturday, December 14, 2024, Friar Ettore FILIPPUCCI of the Italian Province of St. Francis of Assisi (Central Italy) was ordained to the priesthood....
Brazil: Priestly Ordinations
In 2024, the Province of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe in Brazil joyfully celebrated the 50th anniversary of its founding with the priestly ordination of...
Friar Stanislao MATTEI: 200th Anniversary of Death
May 12, 2025, marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Friar Stanislao MATTEI, OFM Conv. Friar Stanislao was born in Bologna, in 1750....
CEF Annual Assembly
On Easter Monday, still mourning the death of Pope Francis, the Superiors of the Centralis Europae Foederatio (CEF), a number of youth from Croatia,...
Pope Francis to us Franciscans: Our Charism Is Always Relevant!
On April 23, 2025, the world paused to bid farewell to the pontiff. His body arrived in St. Peter’s Square that morning, where thousands...
Spain: Easter Triduum in Fraternity
On April 17-19, 2025, the Province of Our Lady of Montserrat in Spain once again celebrated its annual “Franciscan Easter” at the San Buenaventura...
Conference of the Ministers General of the First Order and TOR
On Monday morning, April 14, 2025, a meeting of the Conference of the Franciscan Family took place at the General Curia of the Order...