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To learn how your Franciscan TOR congregation might
benefit from membership, contact:
Sister Patricia Burkard, OSF 2500
Grant Blvd. Suite 3
Syracuse, NY 13208
Ph. 315-634-7000
pburkard@sosf.org
or
Sister Diana Lynn Eckel, OSF
6832 Convent Blvd.
Sylvania, OH 43560
Ph. 419-824-3601
dleckel@sistersosf.org
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On July 7, 2009 the Third Order
Regular Franciscan Common Novitiate was given official approval by the
Vatican. Since the early 1990s, religious congregations of Franciscan
TOR women have provided a high quality canonical novitiate experience
for their new members by pooling their personnel and financial
resources. The new entity is a merger of two regional common Franciscan
novitiates, one in the Eastern part of the country, and the other in the
Midwest.
The TOR FCN immerses novices in a
rhythm of prayer, study, leisure, community service, common living,
inter-congregational learning and personal growth. An on-site novice
minister is in frequent communication with the home congregational
novice minister, and great efforts are made to strengthen ties to the
home congregation, while simultaneously providing the novices with a
peer group.
Currently, thirty-one TOR
congregations of Franciscan women participate in the Franciscan Common
Novitiate.
TOR FCN Hires On-Site Novice Minister
The Governing Board of the Third
Order Regular Franciscan Common Novitiate is pleased to announce the
appointment of its on-site novice minister: Sister Rosalie
Wisniewski, OSF. Sister Rosalie is a member of the Franciscan
Sisters of Perpetual Help, St. Louis, MO. Her ministerial background as
an educator, spiritual director and religious formator in poor and
multi-cultural settings eminently qualifies her to accompany novices as
they begin their journey into consecrated religious life.
Sister Rosalie will assume her
duties January 1, 2010. She will begin setting up the novitiate house
in St. Louis, MO, securing presenters for the various classes, choosing
the formative community of professed Sisters who will live with the
novices, and preparing to receive the first group of novices in August,
2010.
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