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About Franciscan and Friends

Written by Administrator

Wednesday, 17 June 2009 16:57

St Fransis

The Franciscan and Friends Music Mission began as an informal collaboration of musicians and volunteers celebrating the 2002 World Youth Day visit of Pope John Paul II in Toronto. In 2005, the Roman Catholic Dioceses of Trinidad and Barbados invited our group to the Caribbean for a series of benefit concerts and ministry visits to prisons, drug and alcohol rehab facilities, orphanages, seniors' homes, schools, and impoverished neighbourhoods.

From that informal beginning, Franciscan and Friends has visited the Caribbean each ensuing year, and has expanded its music ministry and community service efforts to encompass four (4) Caribbean island nations.
For the past 3 years, our mission has relied on groups of committed volunteer musicians and mission workers who have been willing to pay their own expenses in order to participate. Although we expect that this kind of personal financial commitment will continue, the success and growth of the mission has resulted in substantial additional expenses for support services, equipment, marketing and advertising. Also, in view of the recent economic downturn, we require the capability to raise money to assist some of those mission delegates who cannot completely cover their participation expenses. These are the reasons we have applied for charitable status.

Last Updated on Friday, 19 June 2009 16:52

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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