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We meet via Zoom each third Tuesday. Once per quarter these meetings are “open access” for all to attend. Otherwise, these meetings are available to members and their guests.
October ZOOM Meeting
Tuesday, October 20, 12:30 PM
Speaker: Colleen Collins, OFS
Topic: Carrying the Charism: The Vocation of the Lay Associate
Colleen Collins, OFS, is the Director of the Companions in Mission, the lay associate program of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia. A Baltimore native, she first encountered the Sisters of St. Francis as a student at The Catholic High School of Baltimore. She moved to Philadelphia and entered the community in 1993, making her first profession in 1996.
Colleen spent twenty years in education, teaching in Catholic schools in Philadelphia and Baltimore. While still a sister, she became a foster parent, and she later left the community to adopt her foster son. She went on to adopt three more children. In 2021, she returned to the Sisters of St. Francis in her current role, welcoming and accompanying lay people who share in the community’s mission and spirit. Colleen is also a Secular Franciscan and is the minister of her local fraternity.
Colleen holds a B.A. in English and Secondary Education and an M.A. in Education in Administration and Supervision, both from Notre Dame of Maryland University.
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Learn more about the Fund for Vocations
Our September meeting speaker was Mary Radford, the Executive Director of the Fund for Vocations. Learn more by wathcing the video below about how the fund supports those pursuing the Lord’s calling!
FUND FOR VOCATIONS
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St. Junipero Serra
A Franciscan missionary, Saint Junipero Serra is well known as the 18th century founder of a string of California missions. Junipero’s missionary life was a long battle with cold and hunger, with unsympathetic military commanders, and even with danger of death from non-Christian native peoples. Through it all his unquenchable zeal was fed by prayer each night, often from midnight till dawn. He baptized over 6,000 people and confirmed 5,000. He is buried at Mission San Carlo Borromeo, Carmel, and was beatified in 1988. Pope Francis canonized him in Washington, D.C., on September 23, 2015.
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