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Receiving and sending forth
Greccio Friary was filled with expectation on 10 January 2026 as the friars gathered for a double moment of grace: the reception of two new postulants, Timothy Colond and Matthew S Lim, and the sending forth of three young brothers, Samuel Tan, Daniel Xavier, and...
St Francis lives on!
"Welcome, Sister Death!" These words will ring in our ears repeatedly this year as we mark 800 years since the death of St Francis on 3 October 1226. On the night of his passing (Transitus), Francis had the brothers sing the canticle he composed the year before - the...
Embracing change for spiritual renewal
Dear friends, “Change is the only constant in life,” said Heraclitus, and indeed the new year marked a change for many friars in our Custody. For example, there is a new parish team at St Mary of the Angels, and Friar Joseph Lee, the first in our Custody to reach 70...
St Anthony’s Bread (January 2026)
Risen Christ parish bids farewell to Friar Esmond
Parishioners of the Church of the Risen Christ marked New Year’s Eve with a prayerful celebration that included Eucharistic Adoration, a Thanksgiving Mass, and a farewell for their parish priest, Friar Esmond Chua, OFM, who has served the parish since 2023. Friar...
Go and Repair My Church
The request Christ made from the crucifix to St Francis 800 years ago came up repeatedly at the 6th Asia-Oceania OFS-YouFra Congress in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. The simple phrase – Go and repair my Church – resonated with the Secular Franciscans (OFS) brothers and...
My Petition to St. Anthony
When Heaven Bent Low
On the holy night of Christmas in 1223, the quiet valley of Greccio became another Bethlehem. Francis of Assisi, with burning love for the Lord made flesh, desired to "make memory of that Child born in Bethlehem", to see with his own eyes the humility of God lying in...
Greccio Friary – A Formation Community
From left to rightBack row: Friar Francisco Basnayake, Friar Gerard Victor, Friar Kenny AnthonysamyFront row: Friar Jorgerson Japar, Friar Marvin Voo, Friar Vernon Chua Named after Greccio in Italy's Rieti Valley, Greccio Friary is a formation community that lives the...