What We Do as a Ministry?

We are brothers and sisters…….. in fraternity. This becomes the privileged place for developing our sense of Church, our Franciscan vocation, and our ministry.

We seek to encounter the living and active Person of Christ in Sacred Scripture, in the Church, and in Liturgical Prayer, especially the Eucharist. Then we strive to overlay that encounter upon our everyday lives among our brothers and sisters, both within and outside of our fraternal community.

We seek to live simply, striving to identify ourselves with the poor and the marginalized among us, seeing in them the face of Christ and working to reach out to them through works of peace and reconciliation. This can take the form of working with Meals on Wheels, putting together “care packages” of toiletries for abused women, hospital volunteering, and other personal forms of evangelization.

We seek to respond to the Gospel by becoming living witnesses of it, espousing the principle of “Life to Gospel, Gospel to Life.” We find that by assigning value to our work, we share in the Christlike acts of creation, redemption, and service to the human family. By promoting the role of prayer within our family and community lives, we find that peace, fidelity, justice, and respect for human life at all levels can be both attained and maintained. And we find that the respect for both the animate and inanimate components of creation leads to good stewardship and ultimately reveals the love of God for us.

Franciscans:                                

• are optimistic and joyful

• see the beauty, goodness and love of God everywhere

• understand the whole of creation is filled with a loving God

• realize God speaks to them through their senses

• love the Gospels, they have a special appeal for our spirituality

• understand Jesus’ Incarnation is the visible, audible, tangible presence of God upon earth; the center around which our spirituality revolves

• see Jesus as our brother and the beloved Son of God.