Secular Franciscan Monthly Gathering

Our next monthly gathering for the San Luis Rey Fraternity will be Sunday, 11/5/17.

• ​10:00 - Mass at the Serra Center at Mission San Luis Rey Parish
• ​11:30 -   Pray the Little Office of St. Francis in the St. Clare Chapel
• ​Noon - Share a Brown bag lunch as a community in the O'Keefe Lounge
• ​1:00 - Attend our General Fraternity meeting at the Old Mission

Formation classes are also held on the Saturday preceding our monthly gathering. Times are:  Orientation (9am - 10:30am), Inquiry (11am - 1pm), and Candidacy (1pm - 3:00pm). To learn more about the process of becoming a Secular Franciscan, please contact us.

Upcoming 'Being Franciscan' Talks

Fr. Charles Talley, OFM

Fr. Martín Carbajo Núñez, OFM

All are invited to conversations on living a Franciscan life, sponsored by Mission San Luis Rey Retreat Center & Parish. Talks will be given in the MSLR Parish St. Francis Hall (see map here). Talks are in English (08:50am - 09:45am) and Spanish (10:50am - 11:45am). The dates are:

• Sunday, 10/22 with Fr. Charles Talley, OFM
• Sunday, 11/12 with Fr. Charles Talley, OFM
• Sunday, 12/10 with Fr. Martín Carbajo Núñez, OFM
  

Fr. Charles Talley is a past Pastor at MSLR Parish where he was much appreciated for his insightful homilies. Fr. Charles is currently the Director of Communications for the Santa Barbara province of the Franciscans.  Fr. Martín Carbajo is a visiting Professor at the Franciscan School of Theology.  Fr. Martín teaches ethics and communication at the Antonianum (Pontifical University Antonianum) & the Alfonsianum (Pontifical Lateran University) in Rome.

Retreat Center Programs

Mission San Luis Rey Retreat Center offers a variety of programs with more always being added. To learn more and to Register go to the Retreat Center website. Some current topics include:

• "Is this the End of the World?" - A review of Biblical Apocalyptic literature with Fr. Michael Guinan, OFM (Offered as a 6 week series concluding 11/15).
  
• "Come and Fill Up Your Senses" - A woman's day of peace with Pat Julian & Ann Hunter focusing on how our senses can lead us to a deeper self knowing and a discovery of new ways of prayer & meditation.  The Retreat will be offered on Saturday, 11/18.         

Franciscan Vision Series - 10/11/17  & 11/9/17

The Franciscan School of Theology invites all to their 'Franciscan Vision' Series:

• On 10/17: Christian Humanism in a Franciscan Voice with Mary Beth Ingham, CSJ. This lecture will look at Duns Scotus, the Incarnation, and our vocation to ongoing conversion and friendship with God as a renewed way of imaging the human journey.
• On 11/9: Can a Franciscan be Angry? Emotional Range in Franciscan Life with Darleen Pryds, PhD.  Francis of Assisi is often depicted in movies as soft spoken and meek, and yet texts point to a range of emotion experienced and expressed by Francis and other members of the Franciscan family. This talk works with the emotional range of Franciscans to explore how we in the Franciscan family express emotions and accept a full range of emotions from one another. 
  

Both sessions will be at 7:00pm in the St. Clare Chapel, Mission San Luis Rey Retreat Center, 4050 Mission Ave, Oceanside 92057. For info, contact Donna Foley at 760-547-1800 ext. 224 or dfoley@fst.edu.

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Christ, the gift of the Father's love, is the way to him, the truth into which the Holy Spirit leads us,
and the life which he has come to give abundantly.
From the Rule of the Secular Franciscan Order