Regional Election Results

Dear brothers and sisters, may the peace of the Lord be with you! I announce the following people have been elected to Regional positions: Kate Kleinert, OFS – Minister Gretchen Bienkowski, OFS – Vice Minister Justin Carisio, OFS – Formation Director Teresa Redder, OFS Secretary Frank Urso, OFS- Treasurer Cindy Louden, OFS – Councillor at Large Ted Bienkowski, OFS – Councillor at Large Please keep the newly elected Council in your prayers as we prepare to serve you for the next three years!
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World Down Syndrome Day – March 21

Thanks to our sister, Teresa Redder, OSF, for sharing this great video. Take a minute and watch!

 

Call to action 2019

Thoughts from your Regional Formation Director - March 2019

March 2019

Greetings to you my sisters and brothers in Christ and Saint Francis of Assisi. All peace and good be with you! May the peace and joy of our seraphic Father be yours in ever greater abundance as we journey with Saint Francis, Saint Clare and the Franciscan family in imitating Jesus and Mary!

 

In my February 2019 “Thoughts from your Regional Formation Director” I continued a discussion on the wonderful Feast of Epiphany. This month I will finish our discussion on what it means to be “Epiphany” and why it is so important.

 

I want to
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Thoughts for the Day – March, 2019 by Father Francis

 

March 2019

Our Father most holy: Our Creator, Redeemer, Consoler, and Savior…

You, Lord, are Supreme Good, the eternal Good, from Whom all good comes…

Holy be your Name…That You may rule in us through Your grace…

Your will be done…that we may love You…with our whole heart…soul…and mind…

Give us this day…Your own beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.

Forgive us…through Your ineffable mercy…and make us, Lord, forgive completely.

And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil.

Amen

Prayer Inspired by the Our Father – abbreviated

Following are daily excerpts taken
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Monthly Meditation for March 2019 by Father Francis OFM Cap

St. Katherine Drexel Regional Fraternity

Regional Spiritual Assistant

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March 2019

Dear Sisters and Brothers in St. Francis,

May the Lord grant you peace!

Because St. Francis was in certain things like another Christ given to the world for the salvation of people, God the Father willed to make him in many acts conformed and similar to His Son Jesus Christ … Once, when St. Francis was near the
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