NW Franciscan Community of the IHM

05/06/2024

All are welcome to come and see what we're all about. Fraternity gathering Monday May 13th 2024 at 1pm at Holy Family Parish in Inverness, IL If anyone has any questions you can ask in the comments or message me

04/10/2024

Fraternity gathering with items for Hopeful Beginnings. Another of our Franciscan resources.

02/02/2024

We Franciscans help out every month with Feed My Starving Children. Our group packed 22 boxes of the Mana packets to feed those in most need in our world. We also donated $106 which feeds a child for an entire year. This is one of our outreach ministeries that we do.

06/06/2023

Picture from an event that we helped out with Feed My Starving Children.

11/06/2018

Our Minister's Message for November is now available.

Laughter permeated professed formation at our fraternity gathering on Wednesday, October 3rd. In celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the Rule for the Secular Franciscan, our spiritual assistant, Brother Jerry, introduced the board game he invented as a means of refreshing our knowledge of the Rul...

11/06/2018

Our Minister's Message for October is now available.

It was a glorious September evening, both outside and inside St. Joseph’s Home as all professed fraternity members gathered to elect a new council who will serve the fraternity for the next three years. The members of the new council are listed in the sidebar of this newsletter.

11/06/2018

Our Minister's Message for September is now available.

In preparation for our triennial fraternity elections, our formation time during the August gathering was spent in a review of our rule which was given to CIOFS (Council of the International Order of Secular Franciscans) by the Holy Spirit who guided the minds and hands of those who wrote it forty y...

08/07/2018

Our Minister's Message for August is now available.

It is hard to say which was hotter, the weather outside or the fire in our hearts. Those professed many years, those new to the fraternity and everyone in between sat enthralled at our fraternity’s Day of Recollection at Holy Family Parish on Monday, July 9th.

08/07/2018

Our Minister's Message for July is now available.

What a lovely gathering we had on Monday, June 11th, as we celebrated the feast of the patroness of our fraternity, the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Thank you — to Fr. David, who made the long trek from Joliet to Palatine to celebrate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and enrich us with his homily — w...

07/02/2018

Our Minister's Message for June is now available.

As the fraternity gathered together on Monday, May 14th, two fraternity pilgrims were on a plane soaring over Greenland and Iceland and the northern Atlantic, on their way to Assisi and this tomb, the heart of all things Franciscan, the final earthly resting place of our Father Francis. The goal was...

05/11/2018

Our Minister's Message for May is now available.

Even though Mother Nature refused to admit that by the calendar it was Spring, there was Spring in our hearts and a spring in our steps as we gathered in fraternity on April 9th. During formation, the results of the recent fraternity survey were shared and ideas and plans for the fraternity were eag...

04/20/2018

Our Minister's Message for April is now available.

For this month’s gathering, all professed will gather on Monday, April 9th, at 6:30 p.m. in the library; please try to arrive a bit before that time so we can start promptly. In place of ongoing formation, there will be a group discussion of the results of the fraternity survey and how they can be...