Novitiate Life
Daily Common
Prayer -
Eucharist,
Morning
Prayer, Daytime Prayer, Office of Readings, Evening Prayer, Night Prayer.
Common
Meditation, Common Devotions, Franciscan Crown Rosary,
Weekly Exposition/Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
Daily
Private
Prayer -
Spiritual Reading, Solitude,
Monthly Day of Recollection
Monthly Spiritual Direction
In- House
Classes -
Franciscan History, Spirituality,
Rule and Constitutions of the Order of
Friars Minor Conventual
Other
Activities -
Fraternity/Recreation,
House Work
Outside
Apostolate: Twice a Week
Participation in
the life of the Diocese
Formation
Team
Friar Robert Melnick, OFM Conv.
Saint Bonaventure Province
Director of Novices
Solemn Profession: August 9, 1990
Ordination: September 20, 1997
Assignments:
Before Ordination Friar Robert was assigned to
The Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi for three years.
He was ordained a Deacon in Rome.
After his ordination to the Priesthood he
was assigned to St. Anthony Parish in Rockford, IL.
During the Jubilee year he returned to minister at the Basilica in
Assisi.
Afterward he became the Director of the St. Bonaventure Province
pre-novitiate
and post-novitiate program in Chicago, IL for four years.
Friar Henry Madigan, OFM Conv.
Immaculate Conception Province
Associate Director of Novices
Solemn Profession: August 28, 1953
Ordination: May 26, 1956
Assignments:
After Friar Henry's Ordination to the priesthood in 1956 he spent the
following six years teaching moral theology and homiletics at St.
Anthony-on-Hudson in Rensselaer, NY until assigned to the province's
parish mission band and retreat ministry.
In the mid-sixties he served as assistant director of the inner city
apostolate established by the Diocese of Camden, NJ.
In 1971 he pursued a degree in clinical social work at Bryn Mawr
University
and afterwards continued his studies at the University of Pennsylvania
at the Marriage Council of Philadelphia.
He was then assigned to the formation ministry of his province and
established the pre-novitiate program in Holyoke, MA.
He also taught Christian Ethics at St. Hyacinth College in Granby, MA.
He spent six years as a member of the provincial council and two
years as a director of the post-novitiate program in Washington, DC
where he was also involved as part of the faculty of the Washington
Theological Union
and as a member of the staff of St. Luke Institute, a specialized
psychiatric hospital, in Silver Spring, MD.
He has served either as administrator or pastor of:
St. Boniface, Montreal from 1957
St. Catherine's, Seaside
Pk from 1963-66
St. Bartholomew's in Camden, NJ from 1967-69
Sts.
Peter & Paul in Camden, NJ.
from1966-67 and again from 1969-72.
St. Peter's, Pt. Pleasant Beach from 1982-88
St. Mary's, Minoa, NY from 1988-97
