{"id":55365,"date":"2023-05-12T12:39:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T10:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofmconv.net\/brasile-incontro-missionario-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-05-12T12:41:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T10:41:39","slug":"brasile-incontro-missionario-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/brasile-incontro-missionario-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil: 2023 Missionary Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On April 21-23, 2023, the Province of St. Francis in Brazil (S\u00e3o Paulo) conducted its 2023 Missionary Meeting. The event took place at the Casa S\u00e3o Francisco Postulancy House in Curitiba, State of Paran\u00e1, Brazil.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This meeting brought together all of the candidates of the Jurisdiction. There were two aspirants, nine postulants, and twelve novices. Among the novices, there was one from the Province of St. Francis in Brazil (S\u00e3o Paulo); two from the Provincial Custody of Our Lady of Coromoto in Venezuela; one from the Provincial Delegation of San Antonio in Peru; three from the Provincial Custody of St. Bonaventure in Brazil (Maranh\u00e3o); and five from the Province of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe in Brazil (Brasilia). Four post-novices attended the event along with the Minister Provincial of the Province of St. Francis in Brazil, Friar Jos\u00e9 Hugo da Silva SANTOS; the Custos of Venezuela, Friar Franklin A. DUR\u00c1N ZAMBRANO; the formators of the postulancy program, Friars Alexandre PATUCCI DE LIMA and Ant\u00f4nio Felipe de Oliveira ZAGO; the formator of the aspirancy house in Ca\u00e7apava, State of S\u00e3o Paulo; Friar Fl\u00e1vio M. VEN\u00c2NCIO; the Novice Master, Friar Andr\u00e9 Luiz Ferreira MACHADO, and the Assistant Novice Master, Friar Ram\u00f3n Alfredo RUI URE\u00d1A, in Cascavel, State of Paran\u00e1; and the Vice Rector of the post-novitiate in Santo Andr\u00e9, State of S\u00e3o Paulo, Friar Avedis BARBOSA.<br \/>\nFriar Jos\u00e9 Hugo began the meeting by welcoming everyone and talking about how important it is for those in formation to be open to the formation process. He also stressed that they should feel they belong to the Order; that they are all brothers in one single family.<br \/>\nNext, Friar Franklin, the Custos of Venezuela, gave a lecture on <em>\u201cThe Conventual Franciscan Charism in Initial and Continuing Formation.\u201d<\/em> Before lunch, everyone took part in a video call with Friars Josimar Oliveira de BARROS and J\u00falio Gon\u00e7alves COSTA, who talked about their experience working at the Provincial mission in Cura\u00e7\u00e1, State of Bahia, Brazil.<br \/>\nOn the second day, in honor of the 800th anniversary of the Christmas at Greccio, the friars and those in formation visited the \u201cMuseu da Vita\u201d [Museum of Life], a children\u2019s health outreach, where they learned about the work being done by this important institution. It has saved, and continues to save, the lives of thousands of malnourished children in Brazil and around the world. It is a vital service which serves the Child Jesus by ministering to children in difficulty.<br \/>\nThe meeting also offered plenty of opportunity to take part in sports, recreation and spend fraternal time together. May God be praised for this Missionary Meeting and the opportunities it provided. May St. Francis intercede for those in formation to help them persevere in their vocations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Friar Alexandre PATUCCI DE LIMA, Provincial Secretary<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 21-23, 2023, the Province of St. Francis in Brazil (S\u00e3o Paulo) conducted its 2023 Missionary Meeting. The event took place at the Casa S\u00e3o Francisco Postulancy House in Curitiba, State of Paran\u00e1, Brazil. This meeting brought together all of the candidates of the Jurisdiction. There were two aspirants, nine postulants, and twelve novices. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,132,148],"tags":[1177,825],"class_list":["post-55365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-falc-en","category-federations","category-news","tag-brazil-sf","tag-missionaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55365","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=55365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}