Welcome
Grace and peace!
We are delighted to have you visit our web site. Here you will find basic information about who we are — enough information, we hope, to give you an accurate sense of the spirit of our Order and purpose as followers of Christ after the examples of Francis and Clare of Assisi.
The Order of Ecumenical Franciscans is a body of Christians who maintain a devotion to Sts. Francis and Clare and their interpretation of the gospel life. We are a diverse group — male and female, single and partnered/married, clergy and laity, liberal and conservative, straight and gay — with varied abilities and disabilities. Our members' church affiliations include free churches and mainline Protestant denominations, as well as Anglican and Catholic communions.
28th Annual Chapter/Convocation
June 28 - July 1, 2012 Fatima Retreat Center, Indianapolis, Indiana The OEF gathers just once a year, face-to-face, as a whole body. Come be with us this year! (Registration is now open, please see details below.) A Little History of OEF Roots
Juniper OEF January 2012, Reviewed and commented on by Dale Carmen OEF & Br. Robert Hugh SSF There was a major Franciscan renewal toward the end of the nineteen century. The Friars in the Roman Church were divided in hundreds of different fraternities. The Pope required that they reunite into one of the three major groupings1, the OFM. We are Ecumenical The Franciscan Family
Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone was born in late summer or fall, 1181, in Assisi, Italy. Renamed Francesco by his father, he became Saint Francis to the rest of the world. |
