THE FRANCISCAN FAMILIES OF THE SECULAR FRANCISCAN ORDER

At the request of Very Reverend Father José Angulo, Minister General of the Third Order Regular of St Francis, in the name of the Ministers General of the Franciscan Families and of the International Council of the Secular Franciscan Order, by letters issued on the 5th day of October 1983,by Virtue of the faculties given to this sacred Congregation by the Supreme Pontiff JOHN PAUL II, we gladly approve or confirm the text of the Ritual of the Secular Franciscan Order written in the Latin language and attached to this Decree.

The confirmation granted by the Apostolic See is to be mentioned in the printed text. Moreover, two samples of the same printed text are to be forwarded to this Sacred Congregation.

Anything to the contrary notwithstanding.

From the offices of the Sacred Congregation for the Sacraments and Divine Worship, on the 9th day of March,1984,in the Jubilee Year of the Redemption.

(Joseph Card.Casoria)
Prefect
+Vergilius Noè
Tit. Archb.of Voncaria
Secretary

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