There were an estimated 200+ participants, including other members of religious orders and congregations, diocesan priests, and seminarians. The four and a half mile walk allowed for plenty of time to meet new people and see some familiar faces as well. Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller was his usual welcoming and warm self; he greeted the Franciscans with a hug and words of encouragement.<\/p>\n Pictured is the Archbishop, second year postulant Andrew Henessy, first year postulant Jacob Minjarez and myself. Our other second year postulant Tony Martinez was busy facilitating a 300+ youth gathering the Archbishop would attend following our walk. Overall it was an enjoyable day for all, and one we trust will produce some good fruit in the near future.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Friar Don Bassana, OFM Conv. This Saturday, October 26, a beautiful fall morning, five members of the San Damiano Friary attended the Archdiocese of San Antonio-sponsored \u201cWalk for Vocations.\u201d Our journey had a Franciscan flair as it began and concluded at Missions the Franciscans established in the 1700s: Mission Conception and Mission San Jose….<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-02 13:41:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"SAM_1488\"](\"http:\/\/www.franciscansusa.dev\/franciscansusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SAM_1488.jpeg\")
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