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Franciscan & Friends 2010 Special Events

 

August 19 -29 - Ceili Rain Alberta Tour

 

Sat. August 21 - Rockystock Catholic Festival, Rockyford

 

August 27/28 - Unity Awards Conference and Gala

 

Sat. September 18, 8:30am to noon - Breakfast with the Bishop, St Cecilia's

 

 

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Thursday, 11 June 2009 04:48

“Your ministry has touched many lives. I hope that you can continue this ministry in the Caribbean as it is a blessing to our people.”

Archbishop Robert Rivas OP, Coadjutor Castries, St. Lucia

“Our sincere thanks for your selfless ministry. You have impacted our lives with a tremendous example of serving.”

Rosemary Scott, Living Water Community, Trinidad

 “We are most grateful for your ministry. Our churches, schools and prison were spiritually refreshed by your ministry. We look forward to an annual celebration of fellowship in Christ.”

Yvonne Patterson, Cursillo Leader, St. Vincent

“Your willingness to bring the Good News of the Gospel in song and your generous contribution of labour in the restoration of our churches has had a deep impact on our community. Grenada continues its recovery from the destruction of Hurricanes Ivan & Emily. We are hopeful of a long term relationship with you in Christ through your ministry.”

Bishop Vincent Darius OP, Diocese of Grenada

 

“We were very blessed by your ministry.
I want to thank you for your generosity in coming and blessing us at your own expense. My prayers are with you and your work. May God bless you always.” 

Fr. Clair Watrin, Blessed Sacrament Parish, St. Lucia

“As a delegate of the Mission and a recovering drug addict I had the most amazing experience of God using the rebellion of my past and my recent surrender to do His will in the most beautiful way, to encourage those still struggling with addictions in the prisons and rehabs we visited. I can’t say enough about the love I received from the Mission Team, my new brothers and sisters in Christ and the way God introduced himself to us in the eyes of the poor we encountered on each island.”

Adina E. …Mustard Seed Street Ministry, Calgary

“As an Evangelical Christian I was deeply touched by the genuine unity I felt as a mission delegate on the Team. Our focus was completely on serving Christ in the poor.

That is the theology of this ministry.”

Rob Laird, Intake Coordinator, Calgary Dream Centre

“The Franciscan and Friends Mission Team are ambassadors, champions, & visionaries...for people of all ages, around the world.  Their leadership--in making this world a better place, via fabulous Christian music--is nothing short of heroic; and all who encounter the Team are forever changed—for the better!”

Dave Rodney, Elected Official Government of Alberta/Humanitarian/Mt Everest Double Summiteer

The Franciscan and Friends Mission effectively utilizes the universal language of music to build community, evangelize and minister not just to the poor but the broader human family, a smart Catholic initiative with good ecumenical participation

Bishop FB Henry

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Unity Awards 2010

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Tony Melendez Concert

Live in Concert

Tony and his band performed in Calgary on April 24th and 25th.

Tony Melendez Concert

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Be sure to visit Tony's web site www.tonymelendez.com

A Franciscan Creed

Inspired by the vision of St. Francis, we commit ourselves to the Gospel as our way of life.

Our world view is centered in Christ, we see Jesus Christ as the beginning, the way and the goal of all creation. This world vision reveals to us a God who is Father and a life which is love. This demands of us a life as brothers and sisters of all people and of creation.

We are on a pilgrimage, trying to reach our Father, trying to live a life of love. We have not yet arrived; we are sinners, but we are called to be saints.

As sinners, weak human beings, we must undergo a continuing conversion, returning always to the Father as prodigal sons and daughters. Christ was poor and Christ was crucified; we seek to share in his poorness and in his suffering. We further commit ourselves to the service of the poor.

In making our way through life, we are guided more by simplicity, humility and littleness rather than by power, prestige and status.

Like Christ, like Francis, we seek to become instruments of peace, peacemakers. Acknowledging the guiding presence of the Holy Spirit, we declare our loyalty to the Church in a spirit of dialogue and cooperation with her ministers and shepherds.

We are conscious of our obligation to share in the life and mission of the Church. We are lay apostles called by Christ to continue his work on earth. Our life and our spirituality however, are characteristically secular, in the world and for the world.

Joy sustains our lives, fulfills our living, we seek the same for others.

To achieve all this is difficult; hence we declare our need for Christ’s Eucharist, for personal, communal and liturgical prayer.1969 Assisi Third Order Congress

St Francis