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Messages From NAFRA
Received August 25, 2005
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MARGUERITE STEIN,
- 2005
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From Our National Minister
My dear
brothers and sisters,
Marge Stein, a member of the St. Francis Regional Fraternity, passed away Wednesday, August 24, the
Vigil of Saint Louis IX, King of France, around 11:05 PM.
She was the
Alternate CIOFS Councilor in 1999 and she was our
Canonist and Parliamentarian for many years. Funeral
services are pending.
May our Lord
open His arms and welcome our dear sister Marge.
Love,
Carol
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Received August 17, 2005
+ ANNA RITA FINCK, 1924-2005
“Praised be You, my Lord,
through our Sister Bodily Death,
from whom no one living can escape”
(CtC
12).
The mother of
our brother Benet Fonck OFM
Anna Rita
Fonck
died at the age
of 81
on the feast of
the Dormition and Assumption
of the Blessed
Virgin Mary,
August 15, 2005;
she has been bedridden for two and a half years,
and died of heart failure
combating a major infection in her right foot.
The Visitation,
Vigil Service, and Funeral Mass
will all be held
at
Mary Queen of
Heaven Church
429 North West
Avenue
Elmhurst,
Illinois,
on Thursday,
August 18, 2005.
Visitation begins at 3:00pm.
The Vigil Service begins at 6:00pm.
The Funeral Mass begins at 7:00pm.
Burial will be private on August 19, 2005.
May she rest in
peace!
Benet and all
the members of the Fonck Family
are grateful for
the sympathy of the friars
and their
solidarity in prayer and brotherhood.
(Condolences
to Benet Fonck OFM at
422 North
Dixon Avenue
Joliet IL
60435-7050
fonckbenet@aol.com)
Received from [NAFRA-L] Ecology Commission Chair
June 19, 2005
Dear Brothers and Sisters:
Here is the announcement for the
National Ecology Commission Chair. Please forward it to your
Regions. This will be advertised in the next TAU-USA. The due date is
so far in the future because the next TAU-USA newsletter should be
delivered around the end of August. A Sept 30th deadline gives about
a month of notice time for SFOs who may be interested but do not
receive this email. Applicants may send the information to me anytime
before Sept 30th.
Pax Et Bonum! Jane
RECRUITMENT FOR NATIONAL ECOLOGY
COMMISSION CHAIR.
The NAFRA Executive Council is
soliciting applications from SFOs interested in serving as the Chair
of the National Ecology Commission. Applications are due by September
30, 2005. The selected person(s) will begin the 3-year term upon
appointment.
An applicant must:
- have active Secular
Franciscan status (must provide copy of Certificate of Profession);
- be familiar with the Mission
Statement and goals of the National Ecology Commission;
- be willing to communicate
his/her passion and desire to promote the Commission to others;
- provide a summary of ideas
to promote the Commission;
- be able to write four
articles for the TAU-USA newsletter yearly; and
- be able to attend at least
two four-day national meetings yearly.
If you meet the above criteria
and are interested in applying, send your resume, a letter responding
to the above criteria and a copy of your certificate of profession by
September 30, 2005, to:
Jane DeRose-Bamman
Apostolic Commissions
Coordinator
737
Valverde Dr S.E.
Albuquerque, NM 87108
505-254-0512
Recent
Messages pertaining to the Earthquake/Tsunami devastation in Indian Ocean
rim countries:
MESSAGE FROM OUR SFO MINISTER GENERAL
CONCERNING THE TSUNAMI
Madrid, 1st January 2005
To all the Brothers and Sisters of the
Secular Franciscan Order
To the SFO National Councils
To the SFO International Councillors
Circ. 22/02-08
Dear Brothers and Sisters:
May the Lord, whose birth we are celebrating, give you peace!
I am making contact with you all at the beginning of this new year in
order to express my fraternal affection and best wishes for each one of you,
for your families and for your Fraternities.
I especially wish to make contact with you about the tsunami in South
East Asia with the aim of accompanying and strengthening you at this time of
profound suffering and bewilderment which we are undergoing as citizens of
the world, as Christians and as Franciscans. I also wish to support and
strengthen the impulses and initiatives of generous solidarity which this
unfortunate event, I’m sure, has aroused in all of you.
The tragedy of South East Asia affects us all, no matter where we live,
and we cannot remain passive or indifferent before the pain of so many of
our brothers and sisters. I know it is not so and that all of us are making
our own the pain which directly affects so many people, probably even some
of our own SFO Fraternity with whom we have not been able make contact. In
the face of this tragedy, which affects the whole of humanity, I ask all the
Order, all brothers and sisters, to mobilise with passion – there where you
live – in order to collaborate actively and generously with the Church and
civil organisations which are providing humanitarian aid to those affected.
If it is possible for us, we should do so through our own initiatives or
that of the Franciscan Family, but if not, by uniting as Franciscans - sent
and supported by our Fraternity - in projects begun by other people or
entities of ‘good will’ (R. 14).
During our last General Chapter we assured the Holy Father that: “we
would commit ourselves to continue and develop, with all the imagination of
charity, our service in favour of the most unfortunate ...
The Holy Father, on the same occasion, asked us: “... to deepen the
true foundations of the universal fraternity and to create a spirit of
acceptance and a climate of brotherhood everywhere. Let you commit
yourselves firmly ... to struggle against all attitudes of indifference
towards others ”.
May our fraternal service, at this time, be in accordance with the
commitment made and through our sacrifice, our personal donation, our doing
without material things, together with intense days of prayer that the
tension of solidarity with the victims of this tragedy should not slacken
and that Lord may take pity on those precious regions of our world, be our
contribution to the wishes of the Holy Father at this precise moment. May
they also be “the gold, incense and myrrh” which we present to Jesus
at His Epiphany and a consolation to our brothers and sisters of South East
Asia and may they be, in turn, a point of light and reference of love for
those who are suffering around them.
With great confidence I affectionately embrace each and every one of you.
Your sister and Minister,
Encarnación del Pozo
SFO General Minister
12/29/2004
Dear Everyone,
Just had an e-mail from Fr. Mike Higgins.
He and the friars in Bangladesh are okay. He is planning to go to Sri
Lanka
on Jan. 2 if it is still possible. No one has been able to contact our
friars there yet. We are hoping it is because the phone lines are down.
Keep
them in your prayers.
And send up grateful thanks for Fr. Mike as well!
Peace,
Fr. Kevin Queally, TOR
Mount Assisi Friary
P.O. Box 161
Loretto, PA 15940
Following Message received from Carlos: (FFMR Minister)
In a message dated
12/29/04
9:20:46 AM Eastern Standard Time, jksanborn@juno.com writes:
If you want to send a donation you can send it directly to
National (NAFRA) or you can send it to Pam Nagle and she will send
it as a region. (FFMR)
From John Sanborn (Nafra)
Dear NAFRA People:
I believe there is value in showing a united front by making one large
donation to CRS rather than many small ones. We could just as easily
e-mail our pledge to Dennis as to any place else. With the enormity
of
the disaster, relief aid will be needed just as much in a few weeks as
it
is right now. So for those of you that want to, please send an e-mail
directly to Dennis to pledge a personal gift, or a commitment that
your
region or fraternity will fulfill in the near future. Dennis can then
write a check early in the new year for a total of the pledges plus
the
amount the EC decides to give from the Donor fund.
Peace and New Years Blessings to all,
John
Peace and All Good
Carlos
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