The friars strive to daily pick up our crosses and follow after our Lord Jesus Christ. This is why we exist: to live the Holy Gospel. Our fidelity in living according to the Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is only possible and fruitful through the grace of the Holy Spirit, apart from whom we can do nothing. This journey is fundamentally fueled by our personal and communal life of prayer and authentic fraternity and is purified through our life of penance. The friars unceasingly look to the example of our Holy Father St. Francis, our Holy Mother St. Clare, and all Franciscan saints, especially those in the Capuchin tradition, as fonts of grace and models of authentic discipleship.
As followers of our Lord Jesus Christ and our Holy Father St. Francis, the friars are called to daily conversion. Each day, the friars recommit themselves to conversion, repentance, and penance. No friar, no matter how young or old, is exempt from this essential component of our life: daily conversion. As friars of the renewal, we are passionately dedicated to first and foremost being personally and communally renewed by the Holy Spirit. Through freely entering into the purifying fire of the Holy Spirit, modeled so perfectly by our Seraphic saints, the friars desire that their profound personal renewal leads to communal renewal, and becomes a raging fire of grace which renews our Church and our world.
“The friars unceasingly look to the example of our Holy Father St. Francis, our Holy Mother St. Clare, and all Franciscan saints, especially those in the Capuchin tradition, as fonts of grace and models of authentic discipleship.”
As consecrated religious, the friars daily lay down their lives by freely embracing the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity, and obedience. To the honor of God the Father, and through the grace of the Holy Spirit, the friars freely assume consecrated religious life in the Church as a divine and special gift which conforms us more perfectly to Jesus Christ, the perfectly poor, chaste, and obedient one. Our religious consecration serves as a sign of the heavenly glory that is a participation in the life of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.