Our Lady of Guadalupe Province
1204 Stinson Street, SW
Albuquerque, NM 87121
505 831 9199 | [email protected]
Six OFM provinces in the US are working to create new energy in Franciscan life in the US, and to function more efficiently. By the Fall 2023, a new "coast-to-coast" province of the Order of Friars Minor will come into existence. The process to create this new province is called Revitalization and Restructuring (or by the nickname “R+R.”)
While the number of religious is growing in Asia and Africa, it is dropping in Europe and in the US. Provinces that comprised more than a thousand men are now down to apporximately 700; provinces that started with fewer friars are now similarly much reduced in number.
There are savings which can be gained by combining vocation offices, accounting offices, communication offices, etc. Restructuring will allow more of the money generously donated to the Franciscans by the people of God to be dedicated to our works.