FORMATION FRIDAY
is the weekly offering of the NATIONAL FORMATION COMMISSION
designed to be especially useful for the purposes ofÂ
Ongoing Formation in your Local Fraternity.
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dating back to the program's inception on 4 October 2019.
FORMATION FRIDAY 2024
The most recent article appears on top of the list:
JUSTICE, PEACE, and INTEGRITY of CREATION: II
JUSTICE, PEACE and INTEGRITY of CREATION
"FROM GOSPEL to LIFE": The OFS RULE, CHAPTER 2, ARTICLES 18 AND 19
"FROM GOSPEL to LIFE": The OFS RULE, CHAPTER 2, ARTICLES 15, 16, and 17
"FROM GOSPEL to LIFE": The OFS RULE, CHAPTER 2, ARTICLES 12, 13, and 14
"FROM GOSPEL to LIFE": The OFS RULE, CHAPTER 2, ARTICLES 10 and 11
CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING and the OFS RULE
"FROM GOSPEL to LIFE": The OFS RULE, CHAPTER 2, ARTICLES 8 and 9
"FROM GOSPEL to LIFE": The OFS RULE, CHAPTER 2, ARTICLES 6 and 7
"FROM GOSPEL to LIFE": The OFS RULE, CHAPTER 1, ARTICLES 4 and 5
The RULE: The CONVERSION PROCESS: ONGOING CONVERSION of the HEART
"FROM GOSPEL to LIFE": The OFS RULE, CHAPTER 1, ARTICLES 1 - 3
The 800th ANNIVERSARY of the STIGMATA
TAKING STOCK 2024: OUR LIVES of PRAYER as SECULAR FRANCISCANS
FORMATION FRIDAY 2023
2024: TIME to EXAMINE YOUR LOVE and COMMITTMENT
The 800th ANNIVERSARY of the CHRISTMAS at GRECCIO and the Newly Granted PLENARY INDULGENCE
The "O" ANTIPHONS and THE PRAISES OF GOD
SECULAR FRANCAN RULE: PROLOGUE (PART II)
SECULAR FRANCISCAN RULE: PROLOGUE (PART I)
The OUR FATHER: A SOURCE for DEEPER PRAYER
WORK: JPIC for SECULAR FRANCISCANSÂ
SOME ATTRIBUTES of ST. FRANCIS as seen in HIS WRITINGS
SECULAR FRANCISCAN SERVANT LEADERSHIP
SERVANT LEADER MODELS: FRANCIS and CLARE
SERVANT LEADERSHIP: A PRIVATE TALK WITH MYSELF
NATIONAL CHAPTER of VISITATIONS
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ST. CLARE?
The PORTIUNCULA INDULGENCE (The PARDON of ASSISI)
SECULAR FRANCISCANS and the EUCHARIST
ADMONITION I: THE BODY OF CHRIST
PRAYER of DISCERNMENT: THE PRAYER BEFORE the CRUCIFIX
A SALUTATION of the BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
The PRAISES to be SAID at ALL the HOURS
DEFINING PENANCE and CONVERSION
ELEMENTS of a PENITENTIAL LIFESTYLE
STRENGTHENING and MAINTAINING VOCATIONS
HOW DO WE RECOGNIZE a VOCATION and BRING IT FORTH? II
VOCATIONS, COMMUNICATIONS, and RELATIONSHIPS: WHAT IS A VOCATION? : I
FORMATION FRIDAY 2022
ADVENT -- WAITING and CONVERSION: III
ADVENT-- WAITING and CONVERSION: II
ADVENT -- WAITING and CONVERSION: I
LISTEN, DISCERN, and GO FORTH: III
LISTEN, DISCERN, and GO FORTH: II
LISTEN, DISCERN, and GO FORTH: I
ADMONITIONS XXII, XXIII and XXIV
SECULAR FRANCISCANS and the EUCHARIST
WHEN WE GATHER in CHAPTER (Part 2)
WHEN WE GATHER in CHAPTERÂ (Part 1)
OUR CALL AS PRIEST, PROPHET, KING, and OUR RULE
THE SPIRITUAL LIFE of the SECULAR FRANCISCAN
ST. CLARE THROUGH the EYES of OTHERS
RITES of ADMISSION and PROFESSION
WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT (Part 5)
WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT (Part 4)
WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT (Part 3)
WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT (Part 2)
WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT (Part 1)
The OFS RULE: OFS INSTRUMENT of CONVERSION (Week Six)
The OFS RULE: OFS INSTRUMENT OF CONVERSION (Week Five)
The OFS RULE: OFS INSTRUMENT of CONVERSION (Week Four)
The OFS RULE: OFS INSTRUMENT of CONVERSION (Week Three)
The OFS RULE: OFS INSTRUMENT of CONVERSION (Week Two)
The OFS RULE: OFS INSTRUMENT of CONVERSION (Week One)
CHARISM and our IDENTITY as SECULAR FRANCISCANS
FORMATION FRIDAY 2021
PRAISE the LORD for OUR BLESSINGS
INCARNATION and HUMILITY of GOD
PART III of the STUDY of FRANCIS' PRAYER to the CRUCIFIX of SAN DAMIANO
ADVENT and the PRAYER of ST. FRANCIS
ADVENT: WAITING and CONVERSION
ST. FRANCIS and the EUCHARIST: The CROSS and the CRIB, PART III
ST. FRANCIS and the EUCHARIST: The CROSS and the CRIB, PART II
ST. FRANCIS and the EUCHARIST: The CROSS and the CRIB, PART I
FOCUS on the ADMONITIONS: XIII and XXVII
OUR IDENTITY as SECULAR FRANCISCANS (PART 3)
OUR IDENTITY as SECULAR FRANCISCANS (PART 2)
OUR IDENTITY as SECULAR FRANCISCANS (PART 1)
CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING from ST. FRANCIS to the SECULAR FRANCISCAN RULE
PREPARING for the FEAST of ST. FRANCIS: HIS PRAYERS and NOVENA
LITURGICAL PRAYERS for SECULAR FRANCISCANS
FOCUS on the ADMONITIONS: II and III
FRANCISCAN SPIRITUALITY in 7 STEPS
PROFESSION BEFORE the RITE (PART 2)
BEFORE COMMITMENT to the GOSPEL WAY of LIFE
INTRODUCTION to the EARLY DOCUMENTS of CLARE of ASSISI
ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS of the OFS RULE
WHO DO WE SAY WE ARE? PART 2 of UNDERSTANDING OUR RULE
PART I of UNDERSTANDING OUR RULE
ENCOUNTERING JESUS in the GOSPEL
GOOD FRIDAY 2021: CLARE GAZING
The VALUE of PRAYER and CONTEMPLATION
ST. FRANCIS' RELATIONSHIP with GOD
INSTRUMENTUM LABORIS: PART 4, PART 3 (continued)
PREPARING for the 2021 GENERAL CHAPTER
LITANY and EXAMINATION of CONSCIENCE: PART 2
LITANY and EXAMINATION of CONSCIENCE
PRAYER LIFE: ST. BONAVENTURE ADDRESSES the POOR CLARE NUNS
FORMATION FRIDAY 2020
STRENGTHENING OUR FRATERNITY LIFE
FRANCIS' DEVOTION to the INCARNATION and the HUMILITY of GOD
O ANTIPHONS and the PRAISES of GOD
FOCUS on the ADMONITIONS: IV, VI, and IX
The ROSARY and the FRANCISCAN CROWN
WHAT are the ADMONITIONS of FRANCIS?
The SEVEN CROSSES of ST. FRANCIS
WHAT DOES FORMATION DO for US?
COMMITMENT and the VALUE of PROFESSION
THINGS to REMEMBER ABOUT PROFESSION
TRUE and PERFECT JOY: FRANCISCANS and SUFFERING
WHY DO SECULAR FRANCISCANS WEAR the TAU CROSS?
MARY, PROTECTRESS of OUR ORDER