Third Order Regular Franciscan Common Novitiate
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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 or Sister Diana Lynn Eckel, OSF |
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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