The difficulties seem to me to be sustained by this greater acceptance. The challenge of living in a secularised society has been accepted without recriminations and is also lived with an awareness of giving witness to the Gospel and Franciscan life. “The friars have been able to embrace this, accept it and guarantee in the presences that remain, especially in Canada and in the small signs of Franciscan life, which are significant. “It remains a presence that has been able to accept the challenges of a great change: from the great numbers, the great houses and works of the past to a much smaller and simpler presence,” Br Massimo continues. What is the Franciscan presence in the United States today? These are the words of Br Massimo Fusarelli on the outline of his visit. For the Province of the Immaculate Conception, I met the fraternity of St Anthony with other friars and postulants from Brooklyn, the Curia, the missionary centre, and the Mt Alverna fraternity in the suburbs of New York”. I met with two fraternities of the Holy Name Province, particularly the friars who serve in the Curia and the fraternity of St Francis in Manhattan.
“I also met the friars of the Herzegovinian Province who serve the Croatian community in New York. There were many opportunities for questions and answers and discussions with the friars and postulants of the Province. Here they had the opportunity to visit the Provinces of Holy Name and Immaculate Conception, and their visit was received with great anticipation and celebration by the friars.īr Massimo Fusarelli and Br Jimmy, in their visit to the two provinces in the United States, met with the Franciscan Mission Associates organisĪtion. From 25 to 29 September, Br Massimo Fusarelli, Minister General, accompanied by Br Jimmy Zammit, Definitor General, arrived in New York after visiting the Holy Spirit Province in Canada.
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