New Regional Spiritual Assistant: Br. Gerry Clyne, ofm

​Br. Gerry Clyne, ofm

​“…the Seculars that have kept me Franciscan.”

I was born a twin in 1960 in Ottawa and raised in a strong Protestant Evangelical family. Besides my twin, who is a minister, I also have a younger brother and a yet younger sister.

After I graduated from a Methodist Bible college with a Bachelor of Theology I became a Catholic in 1986 and entered the Franciscan Postulancy in 1988 in western Canada.  I made my Solemn Vows in 1994.

As a Franciscan I have worked in retreat houses and was Vocation Director for almost twelve years.  My history with the Secular Franciscans goes back to the beginning of my Franciscan story.  I was in process to become a Secular when I received word that I had been accepted into the First Order.

With the Seculars I have been Local, Regional and National Spiritual Assistants.  I have always said that it has been the Seculars that have kept me Franciscan.