General Registration for the Annual Chapter/Convocation is now open. If you are discerning a call to the community, this is an excellent opportunity to meet with members of the community, worship together and to learn how the Order functions. You can register by clicking here.
On behalf of the whole Order, we wish you a Happy Easter. May these 50 days be a time of celebration and new life for you.
The annual Chapter and Convocation Meeting for 2016 will be held at Our Lady of Fatima Retreat Center in Indianapolis, IN. The program begins on the afternoon of Thursday, May 26th. Participants who arrive on Wednesday are invited to take time for silent prayer, or connecting with others in the…
This month I went on a week long silent retreat with Helen in the Wairarapa. They not only did morning prayer each day but they did evening prayer as well every day. Praying twice a day! Whatever next? As if that wasn’t enough, Helen took me on some expeditions as…
Peace and Good to Each and All. Lenten blessings…. In our proposed revised Statutes, Article V. A. 1.b.ii. reads: “Annual Discernment on Community Life and Witness: At any time, but especially during Lent, members of the Order are asked to prayerfully reflect upon the Life and Witness of our Order.…
A Report to the Minister and Chapter of the Order of Secular Franciscans (OFS), the Third Order, Province of the Americas, Society of St. Francis (TSSF), and the Order of Ecumenical Franciscans (OEF) October 7, 2015 Since its inception in February of 2004, the Joint Committee on Franciscan Unity has…
FAN is proud to be a part of an upcoming forum in Arizona on Food Justice, Faith and Climate Change. Coordinated and hosted by Gary Paul (Br. Coyote) Nabhan, who was recently named 2016 Distinguished Ethnobiologist, this forum offers participants workshops on a variety of topics related to…
Better known to us as Br. Coyote, aaawwwoooooo! Words: DEB Committee (Scott Herron, Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, Raymond Pierotti) and Awards Coordinator (Liz Olson). On behalf of the Distinguished Ethnobiologist Award committee and the Society’s Board of Directors, we are honoured to announce Dr. Gary Paul Nabhan as the 2016 Distringuished…
I am being made to do my bit for the care of creation. Reluctantly, I went into Helens garden with her and looked for pest plants and noxious weeds in her native fernery. These had to be dug out. I found some blue morning glory. I thought it was such…
Registration for the annual Chapter/Convocation will be opening for members on Ash Wednesday and for visitors on April 1st. You can learn more about this year’s gathering (May 25-29, 2016) at the Fatima Center in Indianapolis, IN here.