{"id":27998,"date":"2020-10-03T08:21:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T06:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofmconv.net\/chicago-assemblea-provinciale\/"},"modified":"2020-10-03T18:31:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T16:31:03","slug":"chicago-assemblea-provinciale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/chicago-assemblea-provinciale\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago: Province Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From September 28 to October 1, the friars of the Province of St. Bonaventure met in assembly at Our Lady of Fatima Friary in Marytown (Chicago, Illinois, USA).&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The friars have been conducting a two-year study on the strategic needs of the Province over the coming years (together with consulters from the Plante Moran Agency), and this assembly allowed them to finalize their Four- Year Plan (which included withdrawing from two apostolates in order to offer more flexibility in meeting the needs of the Province. &nbsp;The hope is to concentrate on larger, urban friaries which offer an opportunity for outreach to the poor.<br \/>\nThis assembly was originally going to be an Extraordinary Provincial Chapter, but given the restrictions due to coronavirus, it proved impossible to gather enough friars to create a quorum for a Chapter (especially considering the fact that the friars of Australia are a Delegation of this Province).<br \/>\nOn the evening of September 30, the friars of the assembly gathered in the chapel of Marytown to celebrate the diaconal ordination of Friar Thomas Anthony FETZ.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Friar Jude WINKLER, Assistant General for the CFF<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From September 28 to October 1, the friars of the Province of St. Bonaventure met in assembly at Our Lady of Fatima Friary in Marytown (Chicago, Illinois, USA).&nbsp; The friars have been conducting a two-year study on the strategic needs of the Province over the coming years (together with consulters from the Plante Moran Agency), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,132,148],"tags":[249,999,1166,742],"class_list":["post-27998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cff-en","category-federations","category-news","tag-assembly","tag-diaconal-ordination","tag-ordinazione-diaconale-en","tag-usa-sb-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}