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Website title: Secular Franciscan Order – USA – Following Christ in the footsteps of St. Francis
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(This article originally appeared in the TAU-USA Fall 2025 Issue #117)
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Fr. Jerome also cautioned against relying too heavily on niceness and surface gestures, but instead, offering our neighbors true compassion. “You don’t need to be smiling all the time,” he said. “Smiles have their place, but sometimes others need not a smile but an embrace.”<...
Standing united, we bear witness to the love of the Father revealed in Christ. We fulfill the prayer of Jesus, who asked the Father “that all may be one,” so that the world may believe. We recognize today that we share real, if imperfect, unity.
(This article originally appeared in the TAU-USA Fall Issue 117)
By Sharon Winzeler, OFS • Communications Committee Chair
From daily Mass to Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, prayer was an essential element at the 2025 National Chapter at the Bon Secours Retreat Center in Marriottsville, Maryland, and was led by several friars, thre...
God’s love flows in abundance. Baptism disposes us to be open to that love. John’s baptism, affirmed by Jesus, was not one of invitation, but of reformation, acknowledgement of one’s need of conversion. In Christ, baptism becomes a sacrament of re-birth–the reception of new life.
All members of the Franciscan family are invited to subscribe to CIOFS e-newsletter and be informed of the events planned to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the transitus of St. Francis of Assisi as well as other news. You can subscribe by clicking on this link.
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