Archive for April, 2007
Provincial Seminar
On Saturday morning the friars gethered at the Porziuncola Retreat House for a seminar. As this month coincided with the day for Vocations, which is being celebrated this weekend (4th Sunday of Easter) the theme for this seminar dealt specifically with vocations.
A Hermitage experience at Ispica Sicily
We students (Joseph Ciappara and Walter Vassallo) have been longing for such an experience for quite a while. Thankfully our province presented us the opportunity to do a hermitage for a second time after the one we had done at Gozo by Fr Noel Muscat ofm on the Hermitage rule by St. Francis.
50 years of Priesthood
The last weekend saw the anniversary of two of our brothers, who celebrated the 50th Anniversary of their priesthood. Fr. John Micallef celebrated a thanksgiving Mass on Saturday morning and Fr. Godfrey Micallef celebrated Mass on Sunday morning.
Pasquetta for Franciscans
On 11th April a Wednesday morning dawned with a promise of a sunny day as if the elements knew that we had just celebrated Easter. It was a get together for the three Franciscan Orders:
