“Pray Hope, and don’t worry” ~ St. Pio

2 Maccabees 12:46 It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins.

Padre Pio FraternityThe Brothers and Sisters of Saint Francis Region - Secular Franciscan Order

November 2015

We celebrate the Feast of All Saints of the

Seraphic Orders on 29 November

Let Us Pray for the Repose of the Souls of Deceased

Members of our Padre Pio Fraternity

Grace Lambert, OFS -Professed- 10/4/1984-Deceased 11/28/1985 A. Gordon Keating, OFS-Professed 11/25 /1945-Deceased 6/22/198 Daniel Skurski, OFS-Professed 12/4/1987- Deceased 9/04/1994 Paul Rutz, OFS - Professed 12/7/ 1986- Deceased 1/30/1995 Lesley Stinson, OFS-Professed 10/7/1995/-Deceased 2/13/1996- Wally Bauer, OFS -Professed 9/7/ 1958- Deceased 1/21/1997 Marie Grissi, OFS-Professed 1959- Deceased 05/09/1999 Patricia Stapleton, OFS-Professed 5/05/1999-Deceased 11/30/2010 Ron Howe,OFS professed 10/2/1999- -Deceased 1/19/2012 Jane Sullivan-Farris,OFS- Professed 5/5/1996-Deceased 3/7/2012 Louise Friedman, OFS- Professed-1/2/1983 -Deceased 07/24/2013 Vincent McKOne, OFS’ - Professed-12/131953 - December 20, 1927 ~ January 5th 2015 Also Jonetta Beresford, wife of Stan Driscoll, OFS – Deceased 05/23/14

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Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister Bodily Death,from whom no one living can escape. Woe to those who die in mortal sin.

Blessed are those whom death will find in Your most holy will,for the second death shall do them no harm.

The Capuchin Crypt: A Monument of Human Bones and Corpses in Rome

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May the souls of the faithful departed Franciscans, through

the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

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This Holy Year will begin on thiscomingSolemnityoftheImmaculateConcep8on and wi l l end onNovember 20, 2016, the Sundaydedicated to Our Lord Jesus Christ,KingoftheUniverse–andlivingfaceof the Father’s mercy. I entrust theorganiza8on of this Jubilee to thePon8fical Council for Promo8on ofthe New Evangeliza8on, that thecongrega8on might animate it as anew stage in the journey of theChurch on its mission to bring toeverypersontheGospelofmercy. I am convinced that thewholeChurchwillfindinthisJubileethe joy needed to rediscover andmakefruiRulthemercyofGod,withwhich all of us are called to giveconsola8on to every man andwoman of our 8me. From thismoment, we entrust this Holy Yearto the Mother of Mercy, that shemight turn her gaze upon us andwatchoverourjourney.-~FromasermonbyPopeFrancis

Va+can City - The Holy Year ofMercy will be an opportunity toencourage Chris8ans to meetpeople's "real needs"with concreteassistance, to experience a "truepilgrimage" on foot, and to send"missionaries of mercy" throughoutthe world to forgive even themostseriousofsins,saidArchbishopRinoFisichella. The yearlong extraord-inaryjubileealsowillincludeseveral

individual jubilee days, such as forthe Roman Curia, catechists,teenagers and prisoners, said thepresident of the Pon8fical Councilfor Promo8ng New Evangeliza8on,the office organizing events for theHolyYearofMercy. During a news conferenceTuesday at the Va8can, Fisichellaunveiled the official prayer, logo,calendarofeventsandotherdetailsof the special Holy Year, which willbe celebrated from Dec. 8 to Nov.20,2016 The mo`o, "Merciful Likethe Father," he said, "serves as aninvita8on to follow the mercifulexample of the Father who asks usnot to judge or condemn but toforgive and to give love andforgivenesswithoutmeasure." Pope Francis announced inMarch his inten8on to proclaim aholyyearasawayforthechurchto"make more evident its mission tobeawitnessofmercy." One way the pope wants toshow "the church's maternals o l i c i t u d e " i s t o s e n d o u t"missionaries of mercy" -- that is,specially selected priests who havebeen granted "the authority topardon even those sins reserved tothe Holy See," the pope wrote in"MisericordiaeVultus"("TheFaceofMercy"), the document officiallyproclaimingtheHolyYear.

"Merciful Like the Father"

CouncilMembers

SpiritualAssistant:Rev.DouglasP.Reed

LayMinister:W.StanleyDriscollOFS

ViceMinister:MichaelEvaniuck,OFS

Forma8on:JoanneJacovec.OFS

Treasurer:SharonWinzeler,OFS

Secretary:MaureenCopan,OFS

Councilors:IdaIrwin,OFS

SuzanneNelson,OFSFrankPeluso,OFS

BSSFRegionMinister:

JerryRousseau,OFS

Area3Councilors:CarmenMadero,OFSFrankMassey,OFS

"ThesoulsinPurgatoryprayforus,andtheirprayersareeven

moreeffec+vethanours,becausetheyareaccompaniedbytheir

suffering.So,let'sprayforthem,andlet'saskthemtoprayforus."―St.

PadrePio

“ (Jesus told St. Faustina )The flames of mercy are burning me. I desire to pour them out upon human souls. Oh, what pain they cause Me when they do

not want to accept them!.” (1074 – paragraph 2 ofSt. Faustina’s Dairy)

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“Lord, by Thy cruel death, and by Thy dear mother Mary, deliver these poor souls from their sufferings; Lord, by Thy five sacred wounds save us.”  - St. Elizabeth of Hungary

Franciscan Saints for November 01 All Saints Day02 All Souls Day03 Bl. Teresa Manganiello , Italy is known as the cornerstone of the Franciscan Immaculatine Sisters. and was known for her great spiritual wisdom and, despite her short life. Her reputation for holiness continues to cross borders, echoing today 133 years after her death.004 St. Charles Borromeo 1538-1584 was the cardinal archbishop of Milan from 1564 to 1584. Among the great reformers of the troubled sixteenth century, Borromeo, with St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Philip Neri, and others, led the movement to combat the inroads of the Protestant Reformation.06 Bl. Alfonso Lopez, priest, and companions, martyrs.07 St. Didacus of Alcala c. 1400-1463 was a Spanish lay brother of the Order of Friars Minor who served as among the first group of missionaries to the newly conquered Canary Islands 08 Blessed John Duns Scotus 1266-1307 is generally considered to be one of the three most important philosopher-theologians of the High Middle Ages. Scotus developed a complex argument for the existence of God, and argued for the Immaculate Conception of Mary.13 St. Frances Xavier Cabrini 1850-1917 founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, a Catholic religious institute that was a major support to the Italian immigrants to the United States. She was the first citizen of the United States to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church (July 7, 1946) 14 St Nicholas Tavelich was a Franciscan missionary, who died a martyr's death in Jerusalem. He was the first Croatian saint.

18 Blessed Salome 1201-1268 19 St. Agnes of Assisi was the sister of St. Clare and her first follower.22 Christ, the King25 Bl. Elizabeth of Reute, virgin, III Ord 27 St. Francis Anthony Fasini was a friar of the Order of Conventual Friars Minor and Minister Provincial of his province in the Order28 St. James of the March, OFM helped spread devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus.

17 St Elizabeth of Hungary 1207-1231 Patroness of the Secular Franciscans along with St. Louis IX of France. Elizabeth appreciated her dignity from childhood on. She found her sweetest delight in being united with God by prayer and pious practices, and her favorite occupation was to serve God in His poor and sick members. Elizabeth was a princess of the Kingdom of Hungary and a greatly venerated Catholic saint who was an early member of the Third Order of St. Francis, by which she is honored as its patroness. Elizabeth was married at the age of 14, and widowed at 20. After her husband's death she sent her children to be with relatives and used her dowry to build a hospital where she herself and her servants served the sick. She became a symbol of Christian charity after her death at the age of 24 and was quickly canonized.

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“You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.” ― Amit Ray

Please Help !!

Sign up for Oak City Outreach -see Ellen Ferrone! (4th Saturday)

Sign up for CPO see Joanne Jacovec, OFS (3rd Monday)

Our Servant Helpers

For Hospitality suggestions see Marie

Roccoforte, OFS!

For Sunshine see Marge Zombek, OFS!

For info on JPIC & Website see Sharon Winzeler, OFS

For Prayer Requests: See Ida Irwin, OFS

For our history and scrapbook - go to Ida Irwin, OFS!

Our magnificent library is maintained by Maureen Copan, OFS~~~Help yourself to SFO

info !

We’re on the Web! Go to:

http://ofscentralnc.org/

Joyce  Wesner 11/16

Lee Cunningham11/19

Virginia  Conway 11/30

December 5, 2015: Annual Fraternity Retreat In the Founders Room from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. 

at the Catholic Community of St. Francis of Assisi, Raleigh, N/C.Fr. Bill McConville, O.F.M.  

Associate Pastor, Immaculate Conception, Durham A light breakfast and lunch will be provided.

Fr. Bill is a Franciscan friar of Holy Name Province. He was received into the Franciscan Order in 1966 and was ordained a priest in 1973. He was educated at Catholic University (B.A.), the Washington Theological Union (M.A.), and Vanderbilt University (Ph.D.), and the University of Tuebingen, Germany.He transferred to Immaculate Conception Church from St. Francis of Assisi Church in Raleigh where he had ministered for   fourteen years. Before that he was at Siena College in Albany, N.Y. where he served as President (1989-1996) and Professor of Religious Studies (1997-2001). Previous to his time at Siena he taught at Regis University (Denver), the University of Montana, and the Washington Theological Union, where he served as Director of the Program in Mission and Cross-Cultural Studies. In the Fall of 1999 he was Catholic scholar in residence at Smith College, Northampton, MA. He currently sits on the Boards of St. Leo University (Florida) and the United States Catholic China Bureau.His intellectual interests include the history of early Christianity, nineteenth and twentieth century philosophy and theology, American Catholicism, and the relationship of Catholicism to culture. For pleasure he enjoys reading (art history, biography, poetry, Southern and Irish literature, politics), serious weight lifting, golf,

Fraternal And Pastoral Visitation The BSSF REC members  who  conducted our fraternity's fraternal and pastoral visitation on October 24th and 25t were: Area 3 Councilor Carmen Madero, OFS, Fraternal Observer; Regional Lay Spiritual Assistant, Willie Guadalupe, OFS,   Pastoral Visitor; Regional Minister Jerry Rousseau OFS, Fraternal Visitor. Wille met with Father Doug, our Spiritual Assistant. It was a delight and a blessing to have our REC visitors with us. The visitation was informative and beneficial for the spirituality and growth of our fraternity. We wished Jerry well in his new position as NAFRA Treasurer. as well as for Willie who will be a NAFRA councilor. Part of the discussion over the weekend included the procedure for obtaining a new spiritual assistant for our fraternity. The visitors also actively participated in our initial and ongoing formation sessions. Our ongoing formation provided an introduction to St. Francis’ Canticle of Brother Sun, a spiritual reflection on St. Bonaventure’s theology of creation, and small group discussions and sharing about how we can serve as “Environmental Peacemakers”. Special thanks to our fraternity members who helped to plan and provide refreshments for our visitation.

From left to right: Area 3 Councilor Carmen Madero, OFS

Fraternal Observer; Willie Guadalupe, OFS, Pastoral Visitor; Regional Minister Jerry Rousseau

OFS Fraternal Visitor.Photo; By Ida Irwin, OFS