On May 19-23, 2025, the Union of Conventual Franciscans of Brazil (UCOB) conducted a continuing formation meeting for friars who have been solemnly professed for five years or less. The event entitled: \u201cQuinquennium,\u201d<\/em> was held at the Franciscan Center for Evangelization and Culture (CFEC) in Brasilia.<\/strong><\/p>\n The meeting was attended by solemnly professed friars from the Province of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe in Brazil (Brasilia), the Province of St. Francis in Brazil (S\u00e3o Paulo), and the Provincial Custody of the Immaculate Conception of the B.V.M. in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro). Friar Gilberto DE JESUS RODRIGUES, Minister Provinciale<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On May 19-23, 2025, the Union of Conventual Franciscans of Brazil (UCOB) conducted a continuing formation meeting for friars who have been solemnly professed for five years or less. The event entitled: \u201cQuinquennium,\u201d was held at the Franciscan Center for Evangelization and Culture (CFEC) in Brasilia. The meeting was attended by solemnly professed friars from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,132,148],"tags":[395,1151],"class_list":["post-82070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-falc-en","category-federations","category-news","tag-brazil","tag-ucob-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82070","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=82070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nParticipants from the Province of Brasilia included Friars Jorge Elias OLIVEIRA MACHADO, Marcelo BORGES DA SILVA, Lu\u00eds Henrique DE OLIVEIRA VENTURA, Altair SANTOS DE JESUS GOMES, Marcus Vin\u00edcius BRITO PIRES DE FRAN\u00c7A, Yan Carlos DE SOUZA MARTINS, Carlos Eduardo GON\u00c7ALVES, Gederson Aparecido MARQUES NUNES, Christian C\u00e9sar SILVA SANTOS and Thiago DA SILVA DE OLIVEIRA.
\nThere was a single participant from the Province of S\u00e3o Paulo: Friar Ant\u00f4nio Felipe de Oliveira ZAGO.
\nParticipants from the Custody of Rio de Janeiro included Friars Fernando PEREIRA DE ANDRADE JUNIOR, Jesus RODRIGUES DO AMARAL and Ricardo ARRUDA BEZERRA.
\nFriar Roberto C\u00c2NDIDO DE SOUZA from the Province of St. Maximilian organized the event.
\nFriar Wilton ALVES ROCHA from the Provincial Custody of St. Bonaventure (Maranh\u00e3o), and Friars Lu\u00eds Felipe CARNEIRO MARQUES and Jorge Luiz SOARES DA SILVA, both from the Province of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe collaborated on organizing the lectures that were presented during the meeting.
\nThe Quinquennium<\/em> is an important event for young Conventual Franciscan friars in Brazil to spend time together, deepen their spirituality, and engage in continuing formation.<\/p>\n