Meet Affiliates

 

Carole Butz
“I’ve simply felt a pull,” says Carole Butz, describing the long-term calling to lay ministry that brought her to FSPA and ultimately to covenant affiliation. In 2007, enrolled in the Spiritual Direction Preparedness Program at the Franciscan Spirituality Center in La Crosse, Wis., she visited St. Rose Convent and was led to the Adoration Chapel by Sister Mary Kathryn Fogarty. “Without saying a word she knew exactly why I’d come early, and what I needed and wanted. I knew I’d arrived home.”

Don Fidler
After a pilgrimage to Assisi, Italy, Deacon Don Fidler, of Brooklyn Park, Minn., knew he was called to “something Franciscan” but didn’t know to what, or where, it was. After visiting his wife’s aunt, Sister Mary Catherine O’Donnell, at Villa St. Joseph in La Crosse, Don realized the answer. “We drove into town and I just knew it. I was being called to FSPA.”

 

Meet More Affiliates

Franciscan spirituality inspires new affiliate relationships - read more.

New affiliate commitments celebrated during 2011 affiliation live-in - read more.

FSPA celebrates with eight new members in affiliation ministry. Read their stories.

Meet affiliates George and Carol Meirick who shared their "couple story" in a recent story in the La Crosse Tribune. You'll learn what caused them to uproot to La Crosse "...where they have found a great sense of community as affiliates with the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration."

2010 Fall Affiliation Gathering: awakening consciousness, renewing relationships, and Annual affiliation retreat invites participants to 'reclaim their intuition' - read more

Nine new affiliates were commissioned in June 2010 - read their stories.

Visit our news page to read about the affiliates who make up the Inner Peace Group and to learn more about affiliate-in process Michael Krueger's upcoming year at Place of Grace.

New covenant affiliates commissioned. Read more.

FSPA celebrates new covenant affiliate. Click here to read more.

Affiliation Office challenges affiliates and sisters to clean green in 2010. Read more.

Affiliates Chandra Sherin and Marci Madary talk about the 2010 Franciscan Challenge, Clean Green. Read more.

Marywood Merrymakers spend summer vacation 'serving as Franciscans' Read more.

2009 Affiliation Retreat: a pilgrimage of peace by Lola Burge. Read more.

Five new covenant affiliates welcomed during 2009 Affiliation Live-In. Click here to read more.

Theresa Washburn, FSPA affiliate, discusses her journey toward affiliation in the June 2009 issue of the Kickapoo Free Press.

Newest affiliates' connections with FSPA heartened deeper commitment. Read more.

FSPA welcomes nine new covenant affiliates. Click here to read more.

Affiliate jubilee celebrations in 2008 honor three women. Click here to read more.

Affiliates celebrate silver jubilees, marking 25 years with FSPA. Click here to read more.

Spirit of Ministry: Welcoming the aliens living among us by Leigh Waggoner.
My experience as a Hispanic in a Hispanic 'mission.' by Edna Whalen. Click here to read more.

Affiliation celebrates prayer and covenant affiliates. Click here to read more.

Affiliation celebrates prayer, covenant and lifelong commitments. Click here to read more.

Spirit of Ministry: Affiliate Violeta Abitia travels parallel paths of spirituality and artistry. Click here to read more.

Five FSPA affiliates make their covenant. Click here to read more.

Sisters welcome new affiliates and one lifelong affiliate. Click here to read more.

Spirit of Ministry: Long-serving affiliate says Franciscanism came naturally. Click here to read more.

Affiliation adds new prayer and covenant partners. Click here to read more.

Spirit of Ministry: Affiliate pairs music with ministry. Click here to read her story.

Six new affiliates make their covenant with FSPA. Click here to read their story.

Affiliates develop new ministry program. Click here to read the story.

Lifelong affiliate pledges to keep growing. Click here to read her story.

In 2003 six women became covenant affiliates. To read their stories click here.