The General Ministers of the First Franciscan Order and the TOR addressed a Letter to their brothers to encourage them to assist increasingly and actively the brothers and sisters of the Secular Franciscan Order (SFO) and of the YouFra (Franciscan Youth).
“The circumstance of the Franciscan Centenarians, which encourages us to energetically update our charism, is the right opportunity to inspire a new impetus for spiritual and pastoral assistance to the Secular Franciscan Order and to YouFra, reevaluating the relationship between all the components of the Franciscan family. Here is the invitation to you, brothers of the First Order and the TOR, to renew the indispensable and precious service of spiritual and pastoral assistance entrusted to us by the Church, and which is accepted with filial obedience, as the Constitutions of each family well state”, we read in the Letter.
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