New Resource: Vocations Tool Kit
Our Vocations Tool Kit is now available on our website.
Celebrate the Rule with this new CIOFS video
CIOFS, our international fraternity, has prepared a special gift for us to help us celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Rule. It is a 12-minute video, entitled, “Forty years of the ‘New’ Rule. A Treasure for the OFS.”
Deadline extended for OFS/FMS trip to Bolivia
The registration deadline for the Secular Franciscan trip to Bolivia has been extended to June 15.
Celebrate the Rule Cards – Week 1
CIOFS is publishing a series of weekly cards to help celebrate the 40th anniversary of our Rule.
Families Crises – A Letter from our National JPIC Animator
I know there are many of our Secular Franciscan brothers and sisters on the ground helping to reunite separated families; working individually and collectively in the forefront, promoting justice by their very courageous actions.
Celebrate the Rule Cards – Week 6: Do I follow in the footsteps of Francis?
The sixth set of of cards CIOFS is publishing weekly to help us celebrate the 40th anniversary of our Rule.
XV General Chapter Takes Order to New Level
150 participants from 110 countries converged at the Seraphicum, a Franciscan Theological University in Rome, Italy for the XV General Chapter in November.
Celebrate the Rule Cards – Week 5: Do I receive the body and blood of Jesus?
The fifth set of of cards CIOFS is publishing weekly to help us celebrate the 40th anniversary of our Rule.
Results of the General Chapter (CIOFS) – Conclusive Documents
"These documents are the ones that the International Fraternity intends to use as a basis of our work during the next three years. Therefore, it is very important, that each and every sister and brother…has the opportunity to study them."
The new Secular Franciscan USA website is now online!
We’re pleased and excited to announce that our new national website is now online and ready for visitors.