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The Joy of Francis The Joy of Francis Together for the Gospel! Summer/Fall, 2006 - Vol. 14, No. 2 In This Issue To my Franciscan Family Page A Letter From Rome Page 2 Something to Think About Page 3 Combined Profession Page 3 Canonical Establishment of San Canonical establishment of the SFO Fraternity of San Lorenzo Ruiz. Lorenzo Ruiz Fraternity Page 4 For the full article see page 4. Racism, Poverty and War Page 6 Miracle of Fr. William Page 7 To my Franciscan Family: Local Fraternity News Page 8 by Rock DeSpain, Regional Minister A Culture of Peace Page 0 Fr. Steve we will miss you……… it was clear to me that I had Franciscans Welcome the In 1992, when I was serving our professed to Stranger Page 11 Order for the first time as the something I Franciscan Youth and Young Treasurer of St. Francis and St. Clare did not know well. So, I promised Adults Page 2 Fraternity in Hemet, I met Fr. Steve myself that I would take the time to Steubenville West Page 3 Gross OFM Conv. He soon became study, roll up my sleeves and become our Spiritual Assistant. It was during a Franciscan. In 1995, I was elected Letter from FI Page 3 these 2 ½ years that I learned how Minister of our fraternity and right Calendar of Saints Page 4 much I still had to learn about our after that. He left us. I am still not Order. His knowledge about the SFO sure if it was me or the obedience to Regional Directory Page 5 and his approach to our fraternity his Order. So, for almost all of the discussions had me sitting on the time I served as Minister, we had no edge of my chair. During that time, continued page Secular Franciscan Order St. Francis Region #52 S. California, USA Summer/Fall, 2006 - Vol. 14, No. 2 http://www.stfrancisregion.org Page We will miss you Fr. Steve, but we all know that wherever you are, God’s work will be done, and done well. I love this job, Peace, love and prayers Rock DeSpain, SFO Minister – St. Francis Region Letter from Rome Dear Brothers and Sisters, On April 6th, 2006, we have finally accomplished a long lasting dream: that the International Council may have a headquarters from where it might be able to achieve its service to the International Fraternity. It is continued from page a very simple headquarters, it is a modest apartment in a Rome sub- Spiritual Assistant. That definitely one-on-one with Fr. Steve as urb, with good transportation to the was Baptism under fire. We survived mentor. Going and coming from center of Rome. and grew in numbers. the visitations and elections. The The moment has come to assume the discussions at the visitations with responsibility among all of us, mem- But Fr. Steve was still around his comments were mind-boggling. bers of the Secular Franciscan Order somewhere, Reno, San Francisco The Pastoral Visitation approach to make financial contributions to be and St. Francis Region. In January is different from the Fraternal able to carry on the signed commit- 2000, I was elected Vice Minister Visitation approach, he taught me ment of paying our headquarters in a of St. Francis Region and what a well. six year loan. Some of you have al- blessing it was to have an OFM, ready contributed but I am sure you OFM Cap., and Fr. Steve in and out Fr. Steve, there are not words to will continue supporting this need. of the picture. express my personal gratitude and We trust that all brothers and sisters thank you for all you have done share the responsibility on his/her I became Regional Minister in for our Order. You guidance to the own as on behalf of those who are October 2000. The first years, he Regional Executive Council was so not able to bear it in a fair sharing was there but in and out, plus having right on. Your mentoring to those of goods. Thank you in advance and three Regional Spiritual Assistants of us who earned our Certificates let’s have the courage to fulfill our was a pure delight. In 2002, we lost as Lay Spiritual Assistants under dream! We need you all! Fr. William our OFM RSA and Fr. your tutorage was truly exceptional. Jim Cleary, OFM Cap. was ill. So The time you gave to our Order to We will place on our Website cur- Fr. Steve and I became constant do so many visitations, elections, rent information on the outcome of companions for visitations and and Masses of Profession on top our new headquarters. elections. You cannot imagine what of everything else you do, was a Encarnación del Pozo it is to have Ongoing Formation, blessing top all of us. Minister General OFS Secular Franciscan Order St. Francis Region #52 S. California, USA Summer/Fall, 2006 - Vol. 14, No. 2 http://www.stfrancisregion.org Page 2 SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT: In your fraternity are YOU an intentional or an associational member? There are two types of members which make up all church communities and pretty much all organizations. They are: intentional and associational members. Both types of members are drawn to and believe in what the community or organization stands for. The difference is that the intentional member is willing to make sacrifices for the community and the associational member participates when it is convenient or when it is something about which they agree. The healthy and vibrant future of the community is dependent upon the number of intentional members out- numbering the associational members. If the opposite occurs, the vibrancy and vision of the community could be greatly affected to the extent that it could lose its’ identity all together. So, simply said, each of you help to define the Franciscan identity of your fraternity..........it is not Combined Profession at Holy Spirit an automatic given......y’all have We enjoyed a combined Profession of brothers and sisters into to work at it !! the Secular Franciscan Order on Saturday, May 20, 2006, at Holy Spirit Church in Hemet. Fr. Steve Gross, OFM Conv., shown above, +Blessings! celebrated. The names of the newly professed were Godwin Milner from Holy Fr. Steve Gross, OFM Conv. Spirit Fraternity in Claremont; Patty Fleming and Louise Schook Regional Spiritual Assistant from San Damiano Fraternity in Palm Springs; and Agatha Borne from St. Padre Pio Fraternity, Moreno Valley. Secular Franciscan Order St. Francis Region #52 S. California, USA Summer/Fall, 2006 - Vol. 14, No. 2 http://www.stfrancisregion.org Page 3 Canonical Establishment of the Fraternity of San Lorenzo Ruiz On June 11, 2006, at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, the Fraternity of San Lorenzo Ruiz was canonically established. Fr. Steve Gross, Regional Spiritual Assistant celebrated, and together with the Regional Officers, signed the final paperwork to make it all official. Fr. Steve told those members of the Fraternities present that the establishment of a Fraternity is a wonderful, marvelous and magnificent thing, but it is only a start and not and end. In the day’s Gospel reading for Trinity Sunday, Jesus gave his disciples a mission to continue his Church. As it was with the new Church, so it is with a new Fraternity: it has great potential, but it is worth shines forth in its Fr. Steve Gross, OFM Conv., together with the Regional Officers, continuing service to the the mission sign the founding documents for the San Lorenzo Ruiz Fraternity The new Secular Franciscan Fraternity of San Lorenzo Ruiz Secular Franciscan Order St. Francis Region #52 S. California, USA Summer/Fall, 2006 - Vol. 14, No. 2 http://www.stfrancisregion.org Page 4 of Christ and the Church. a calligrapher, a sacristan, and the father of two sons and a daughter. The new Fraternity remembers San Lorenzo Ruiz of Manila, who is Implicated in a murder, he was very special to Filipino Catholics shielded by the Dominicans friars as the first canonized Filipino from the unjust charge and joined martyr. Lorenzo was Chinese on a mission to Japan during a time of his father’s side and Filipino on his tremendous persecution. Lorenzo mother’s. He was a member of the and others of his party were Confraternity of the Holy Rosary, captured, tortured for over a year and on September 29, 1637, death released him to the mercy of God. Pope John Paul II called San Lorezo Ruiz “the most unlikely of saints” at his canonization on October 28, 1987. Members of the San Lorenzo Fraternity mentioned Manuel Graciano, Minister for the that it was especially appropriate Fraternity of San Lorenzo Ruiz that the Fraternity which bears his name was brought into being at the Parish Church of Saint Francis Xavier, Apostle to the East, in Little Tokyo. The Filipino Youth Group Folk Dancers added to the celebration in both artistic and atheletic ways. Secular Franciscan Order St. Francis Region #52 S. California, USA Summer/Fall, 2006 - Vol. 14, No. 2 http://www.stfrancisregion.org Page 5 JoAnn Hardwick SFO PEACE AND JUSTICE [email protected] RACISM—POVERTY—WAR I began to see that the pursuit of The killing of babies in a woman’s What’s the Connection? war, not just Afghanistan and Iraq, womb scandalizes us, yet we sacri- - Ray Hardwick, SFO but any war is to rob the poor of fice many more people on the altar bread. In all the calls to arms down of technological warfare without Those who stand for justice in any through the years to defend our free- batting an eye.
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