SUPPORTING FRANCISCAN FRIARS OF THE IMMACULATE UNTIL THE END OF PERSECUTION

A new international pro-FFI petition, this time from Netherlands!

FILE: Franciscan Friars of the Immaculata (FFI) from WWW.ECCLESIADEI.NL

Due to the incorrectly undertaken Apostolic Visitation by Mons. Vito Angelo Todisco and his manipulation of the collected data, under pretences as well as vague and false accusations the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate [FFI] are suffering from suppression and psychological violence. Since July 2013 Commissar Fidenzio Volpi OFMCap doesn’t bring peace but even more suffering to many Friars and Sisters of the FI and the associated laypeople.

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INTERNATIONAL PETITION 

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ITA Qui trovi il testo in italiano.
ENG Please find here the text of the petition in English. 

http://pray4thefriars.wordpress.com/2014/02/14/a-new-international-pro-ffi-petition-this-time-from-netherlands/

SAD CHRISTMAS FOR FRANCISCANS OF THE IMMACULATE

Three More Mass Locations Closed Down Just Before Christmas  

(Rome) The joy of Christmas 2013 has brought another sad note for the Franciscans of the Immaculate. Shortly before the Solemnity, the Apostolic Commissioner, Father Fidenzio Volpi OFM Cap  has closed up three more branches of the Order. Many Traditional Mass locations in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite were connected to the closings. The  faithful were faced with this fact just before the holidays, that they would be without priests and  Mass locations for Christmas.

Of the convents that were closed, one held two Marian shrines, that of Our Lady della Rovere in San Bartolomeo al Mare on the Italian Riviera and that of Our Lady of Pontelungo in Albenga and at the Church of Saint Leonard of Porto Maurizio in Imperia. The reason used by  the Apostolic Commissioner was that the Franciscans of the Immaculate have a missionary charism, which is why they should also be active in the mission and is displacing the brothers to the Third World countries. 

 

Read the rest:http://eponymousflower.blogspot.ca/2013/12/sad-christmas-for-franciscans-of.html