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“If anyone wants to profess our Rule and comes to the friars, they must send him to their provincial minister, because he alone, to the exclusion of others, has permission to receive friars into the Order. The ministers must carefully examine all candidates on the Catholic faith and the Sacraments of the Church. If they believe all that the Catholic faith teaches and are prepared to profess it loyally, holding by it steadfastly to the end of their lives…tell them what the Holy Gospel says (Mt. 19:21), that they should go and sell all that belongs to them and endeavor to give it to the poor…when this has been done, the ministers should clothe the candidates with the habit of probation…”
(Taken from the Rule of 1223 by St. Francis of Assisi)

Welcome to the vocation page of St. Maximilian Kolbe Province, India, of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual. We are a Province (community) of brothers dedicated to the Lord Jesus, living in community with one another, witnessing to the power of the Spirit at work in our lives and the world. Francis of Assisi models for us an approach to the world where all people are valued because they reflect the beauty and love of God. For Francis, as for Jesus, no one is excluded from the circle of God’s love; no one has sinned too much to be received back into communion.

Francis’ vision of the unity of all people challenges us to learn new ways of living in diversity with people of other religious and cultural backgrounds. Such diversity provides us an opportunity to view people of other faiths and cultures as opportunities for the healing and unification of a broken world. Francis’ presence in situations of violence and exclusion in his times challenges us to become instruments of peace and defenders of the rights and dignity of all, particularly the poor, marginalized and all who are in any way excluded from the ‘banquet of the Lord’ and from participating in fullness of life in the life of the world.

We welcome you to the Franciscan vision of the world, a world where love is more powerful than hate, forgiveness more powerful than revenge; hope more powerful than despair, community more powerful than isolation and God is more powerful than anything is.