OFM.FYI brings you news from across our province and about our friars and their ministries and lives. Click below to view are archive issues: October 2020 March 2020 March 2020 February 2020 January 2020...

New novices and team members (Front, l to r) Novices James La Grutta (HNP), Michael Cerretti (HNP), Luis Manuel Rosado-Colombani (HNP), Domingo Martinez (HNP), Michael Lomas (SB), Jason Damon (HNP), Antonio Luevano (SB), Troy...

Below is a letter from Father Dan Lackie, OFM, paying tribute to Father Nevin Ford. Click here to view photos of Father Nevin from the Province Archives Click here to view a video slideshow...

Meet the Franciscan friars of the Great Northwest! At present, we have two major fraternities (houses) of friars in the region: one with a concentration of men living and working in the Portland, Oregon...

In September, 2016 our brother, Friar James Seiffert, left California for an extended mission immersion experience in Vietnam as a guest of our confreres there. Here are some excerpts from his letters home to...

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE FRIAR JOHN GIBBONS ON MISSION IN SIBERIA Friar John Gibbons, a native of Beaverton, Oregon, was back in the USA recently to visit family and friends, and to seek donations...