Tag: franciscan spirituality

Laypeople seeking deeper spiritual lives are increasingly joining religious communities as oblates, secular Franciscans, or associates—integrating monastic values like prayer, simplicity, and balance into their everyday routines.

For Christi and Fernando Ortiz, living close to God — what they now often refer to as the divine, a higher reality or the mystery — continues to draw them. And this pull inspired them to open the retreat center so others can experience their own communions with the sacred.