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In
1994, Cardinal J. Francis Stafford, then Archbishop of
Denver, visited Peru and invited the Sodalit Family
to start their apostolic work in his diocese. At
that time, the Fraternas (founded in 1991)
were just starting to grow.
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Luciane Urban, Rossana Goni and
Beatriz Palacio. |
When Archbishop Charles J. Chaput O.F.M.Cap. was
assigned as the Archbishop of Denver, he also extended
an invitation to the community. And after a time of
prayer, Luis Fernando Figari, the founder of the
Fraternas, sent the first community of the
Sodalit Family to the United States. It was on
December 12, 1998, under the protection of Our Lady of
Guadalupe, that a community of the Marian Community of
Reconciliation was founded in the
Archdiocese of Denver, in Northern Colorado.
The
first three Fraternas who came to Denver were:
Rossana Goņi (Perú), Luciane Urban (Brazil) and Beatriz
Palacio (Colombia). For the first four years they lived
in Wheat Ridge (north west Denver). In May 2003 they
moved to downtown Denver in the residence of St.
Elizabeth of Hungary Church, in the midst of the
Auraria Campus.
The current Fraternas in the Archdiocese of
Denver are: Rossana Goņi (Superior), Daniela
Neuenschwander, Claudia Samamé, Susana Nieto, Ursula
Jimenez, Lara Montoya and Eileen Leyne (AMI).
News in the Archdiocese of Denver about the Fraternas.
Click on the links below:
Laywoman first consecrated for Marian Community of
Reconciliation in the US
World Youth Day: A turning point
Laywoman finds call in consecrated life |
