Secular Franciscan Order – USA Website
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Did You Know – Regionalization, A History
Willian Wicks, OFS, gives us a complete history of Regionalization – moving to geographical structuring and governing away from friar provincial jurisdictional structuring – in A History of the Secular Franciscan Order in the United States. ... Presented here are only excerpts copied directly from Vol. III, Chapter 12, pages 277- 316. ... No one can tell the story better than William Wicks. The rest of the story, the details which mentions talks dating back to “1934 and probably before”, can be found in these volumes.
Did You Know – Franciscan Saints, Blesseds & Holy Days
Sources for Franciscan Saints, Blesseds & Holy Days can be found under "PRAY WITH US" [...]
Did You Know – Sliders on Home Page
Have you noticed the new slides on our Home Page? We hope so. Our team is working hard to make the website easier to use. When you visit, please take a few moments to go through the slides in the ‘image carousel’ to see what’s new. [...]
Did You Know – Formation Fridays Available On-Line
Every Friday, Diane F. Menditto, OFS Chair, National Formation Commission, emails a “FORMATION FRIDAY” [...]
Did You Know – Keeping our Focus on St. Francis of Assisi Topics
We are happy to announce that the entire series of 24 topics of Father John Sullivan, O.F.M. revised course Keeping our Focus on St. Francis of Assisi is now available and easily accessible to everyone! [...]
Did You Know – Prayer page
Check out the new Prayers, Prayer Services, & Ceremonies on our website. As of Nov. 17, 2021 “PRAY WITH US” is on our Menu.
There are Six Categories of prayers.
You will find links to traditional Franciscan prayers, prayer services and ceremonies, and […]
Did You Know – Updated Translations!
Does this mean there is a new Rule? No. The Rule itself has not changed, meaning that the update did not affect the articles of the Rule. The General Constitutions and the Ritual have also not changed, Then why the "update"? ...
Did You Know – Transitus Services
The Transitus of St. Francis
(Francis passing from this life into eternal life.)
OCTOBER 3rd
This Blog updated 10-03-2022
Transitus Services on this OFSUSA website.:
They can be found on the Menu Pray With US
Then Under Seasonal Prayers
Did You Know – Copying Calendars into MS Word
If you have Microsoft Word, you can copy the whole calendar and paste it into Word.