Tag: Ukraine
Ukraine: Ordinary Custodial Chapter Part II
On February 18-20, 2025, the Custody of the Holy Cross in Ukraine celebrated the second part of its Ordinary Custodial Chapter. The event took...
Ukraine: 2nd Ordinary Custodial Chapter
On January 21-24, 2025, the Custody of the Holy Cross in Ukraine celebrated its second Ordinary Custodial Chapter at the Blessed James of Strepar...
Ukraine: Custodial Spiritual Retreat
On September 14-19, 2024, the friars of the Provincial Custody of the Holy Cross in Ukraine conducted a spiritual retreat at the Friary of...
Ukraine: OFS National Elective Chapter
The national fraternity of the Secular Franciscan Order (OFS) in Ukraine was supposed to celebrate its National Elective Chapter in 2022, but due to...
Ukraine: Lviv Honors the Patron Saint of Things That Are Lost
In keeping with tradition, on June 13, 2024, the feast of St. Anthony of Padua, hundreds, if not thousands of devotees of the saint...
Ukraine: Extraordinary Custodial Chapter
On March 11-13, 2024, the Provincial Custody of the Holy Cross in Ukraine conducted an Extraordinary Custodial Chapter. The event took place at the...
Conventual Franciscan Mission Presences around the World – XXXII
Provincial Custody of the Holy Cross in Ukraine
Mother Province: Province of St. Anthony and Bl. James of Strepar in Poland (Cracow)
After World War II,...
Romania: Fresh Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine
On November 11-12, 2023, four friars from the Province of St. Joseph, Spouse of the B.V.M. in Romania took part in a new humanitarian...
Ukraine: Dovhenke – The Smell of War
A Visit to a Village Liberated from Russian Occupation
On August 2-4, 2023, the Custos of the Provincial Custody of the Holy Cross in Ukraine,...
Ukraine: Residents of Mats’kivtsi Surviving the War under the Protection of...
Mats’kivtsi is a village in the Khmelnytskyi region of Ukraine. In 2010, the Conventual Franciscans built the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed...
Greeting to Pope Leo XIV
The echo still resounds in our hearts of all that the Lord gave us in the person and ministry of Pope Francis, whom just...
SGF: Spiritual Retreat for Senior Friars of the FEMO Federation
From April 25 to May 5, 2025, eight senior friars of the Foederatio Europae Mediae et Orientalis (FEMO) participated in a continuing formation retreat...
Fraternal Gathering and New Professions Mark Provincial Event
On May 1-4, 2025, the Province of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe in India conducted its annual gathering for all of the solemnly professed friars...
Priestly Ordination of Friar Moses FIDELIS
On Saturday, May 3, 2025, Friar Moses Johnmaria FIDELIS was ordained to the priesthood amidst great joy and deep gratitude to God. The ordination...
Brazil: Meeting on Human Formation
From April 28 to May 2, 2025, the Provincial Custody of St. Bonaventure in Brazil, hosted a formation course at the Beato João Duns...