{"id":78046,"date":"2025-02-05T12:57:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T11:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/brasile-secondo-noviziato-falc-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T12:58:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T11:58:49","slug":"brasile-secondo-noviziato-falc-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/brasile-secondo-noviziato-falc-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil: 2025 FALC Second Novitiate Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On January 6-31, 2025, the Federaci\u00f3n Am\u00e9rica Latina Conventuales (FALC) conducted a Second Novitiate Experience at the S\u00e3o Francisco de Assis Friary in Curitiba, Brazil, a presence of the Province of St. Francis in Brazil.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Five simply professed friars, preparing for solemn vows, participated. They were Friars Ytalo Weslley PEREIRA GUERRA (Province of St. Francis in Brazil); Gabriel Jos\u00e9 GARCIA GONZ\u00c1LEZ (Provincial Custody of Our Lady of Coromoto in Venezuela); Friar M\u00e1rcio Jos\u00e9 SOUZA MOTTA (formerly a diocesan priest, now a member of the Province of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe in Brazil); Friar Carlos David JARA VERA (Provincial Delegation in Paraguay); and Friar Alisson MESQUITA DE SOUZA (Provincial Custody of St. Bonaventure in Brazil). Friar Alexandre PATUCCI DE LIMA coordinated the event whose theme was based on three aspects of Conventual Franciscan identity: <em>Fraternity,<\/em> presented by Friar Jos\u00e9 LANOIL DOS SANTOS of the Province of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe in Brazil; <em>Minority,<\/em> presented by Friar Jos\u00e9 Ant\u00f4nio CORNIATTI of the Province of St. Francis in Brazil; and <em>Conventuality,<\/em> presented by Friar Alexandre PATUCCI DE LIMA.<br \/>\nFinally, there was a week-long retreat centered on the meaning of the vows and religious profession. In addition to the five participating friars, fifteen novices from the St. Anthony of Padua Novitiate in Cascav\u00e9l, Brazil, also participated in this retreat. The retreat was preached by Friar Michel da Cruz Alves DOS SANTOS of the Provincial Custody of the Immaculate Conception of the B.V.M. in Brazil.<br \/>\nWe give thanks to the Lord for a fruitful Second Novitiate Experience conducted in an atmosphere of study, work, prayer and fraternal community.<\/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 January 6-31, 2025, the Federaci\u00f3n Am\u00e9rica Latina Conventuales (FALC) conducted a Second Novitiate Experience at the S\u00e3o Francisco de Assis Friary in Curitiba, Brazil, a presence of the Province of St. Francis in Brazil. Five simply professed friars, preparing for solemn vows, participated. They were Friars Ytalo Weslley PEREIRA GUERRA (Province of St. Francis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,132,148],"tags":[395,1638],"class_list":["post-78046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-falc-en","category-federations","category-news","tag-brazil","tag-second-novitiate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78046","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=78046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}