THE FRANCISCAN FAMILY

! FRANCISCAN FAMILY HISTORY

! SFO HISTORY

FRANCISCAN FAMILY HISTORY

SIGNIFICANT DATES

! St Francis of Assisi

! St Clare of Assisi

! First Order

! Second Order

ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI

$ 1182 birth

$ 1209 conversion

$ 1223 approval of Rule

$ 1226 death

ST CLARE OF ASSISI

$ 1193 birth

$ 1212 left home

$ 1253 approval of Rule

$ 1253 death

FIRST ORDER

$ 1210-1240: Friars Minor

$ 1240-1415: The Community

$ 1240-1317: The Spirituals (suppressed)

FIRST ORDER (cont.)

$ 1368-1517: Observants within the Community

(1415 approved)

$ 1517: Friars Minor Conventual (autonomous)

Friars Minor of the Regular Observance (autonomous)

FIRST ORDER (cont.)

$ 1525: Friars Minor Capuchin (1619 autonomous)

$ 1897: Friars Minor (Leonine Union)

Observants (1517)

Reformed (1532)

Alcantarines (1562)

Recollects (1595)

SECOND ORDER

$ 1253: Poor Clares

$ 1263: Urbanist Poor Clares

$ 1410: Colettine Poor Clares

$ 1530: Capuchin Poor Clares

SFO HISTORY

‚ ORIGINS

‚ EARLY RULES

‚ RECENT HISTORY

ORIGINS

$ before 13^th Century: penitents

$ Penitents of Assisi

$ third order of lay penitents

EARLY RULES

$ 1221: honourius III, Memoriale propositi

for all lay groups

$ 1289: Nicholas IV, Supra montem

for Franciscan Penitents

RECENT HISTORY

Franciscan Third Order Secular

$ 1883: Leo XIII, Misericors Dei Filius

$ 1957: General Constitutions

RECENT HISTORY (cont.)

Secular Franciscan Order

$ 1978: Paul VI, Seraphicus Patriarcha

$ 1984: Ritual

$ 2000: General Constitutions

SFO RELATIONS

! WITH FIRST ORDER

! WITH FRANCISCAN FAMILY

SFO RELATIONS

WITH FIRST ORDER

‚ Before 1978

‚ Since 1978

‚ Spiritual Assistance (treated later)

‚ Setting up Fraternities

BEFORE 1978

$ Four separate Third Orders

$ Each attached to an Order of friars

SINCE 1978

$ A single Order

$ Four levels of Fraternity

$ Directed by elected Councils

SETTING UP

the Local Fraternity

One of the Orders of friars:

$ establishes a local fraternity

$ appoints a Spiritual Assistant

$ makes pastoral visit

SETTING UP

other levels of Fraternity

SFO Councils:

$ constitute regional and national

Fraternities

$ make fraternal visits

SETTING UP

the International Fraternity

The Holy See:

$ constituted the International Fraternity

through Rule and Constitutions

SFO RELATIONS

WITH FRANCISCAN FAMILY

‚ ON INTERNATIONAL LEVEL

‚ ON NATIONAL LEVEL

ON INTERNATIONAL LEVEL

Conference of Franciscan Family:

$ four friar Ministers General

$ President, Conference of Franciscan Institutes

$ SFO Minister General

ON NATIONAL LEVEL

$ Observers/Consultants

at friar Provincial Chapters

$ Speakers in friar formation courses

$ Participants in friar work teams

SFO

! SOURCE OF RELIGIOUS INSTITUTES

! SFO IN SINGAPORE

SOURCE OF RELIGIOUS INSTITUTES

$ From secular Brothers and Sisters of Penance

$ Third Order Regular of friars (TOR):

founded in 1447

gives spiritual assistance to SFO

SOURCE (cont.)

$ Third Order Regular of St Francis:

priests, Brothers, Sisters.

John Paul II, Franciscanum vitae propositum, 1982.

SOURCE (cont.)

                                 Founders of Franciscan entities

                                   who belonged to:

$ Third Order Regular of St Francis

$ Third Order Secular of St Francis

SOURCE (cont.)

Founders of non-Franciscan entities

                                 who belonged to:

$ Third Order Secular of St Francis

SFO IN SINGAPORE

‚ Local Fraternities

‚ Regional Fraternity

                                    LOCAL FRATERNITIES

$ 1953: Our Lady of Lourdes

$ 1953: St Joseph

$ 1976: St Elizabeth of Hungary

LOCAL FRATERNITIES (cont.)

$ 1987: St Bonaventure

$ 1988: St Margaret of Cortona

$ 1988: St Clare

                                    REGIONAL FRATERNITY

of Singapore and Sabah

St Michael

$ 1991: Constituted

$ 1993: Named

REGIONAL FRATERNITY

of St Michael

Assisted by:

$ Friars OFM,

$ Sisters FMM, FMDM, FSIC