The Saltpond community which is rightly called St. Francis Friary is made up of a novitiate and a friary. It is situated at Saltpond in the Central Region of Ghana just few distances from the Afrangua junction. The statue of Saint Francis of Assisi at the entrance enables you to locate the friary. The Saint Francis friary has the Novitiate of the friars where young friars spend one year in spiritual formation. In fact, it is the spiritual womb of the Franciscan Conventuals in Ghana. The community is the host and mother of the Franciscan Valley of Prayer and Silence. This is a sanctuary that gives spiritual touch and refreshment to people who go there to behold the Glory and Power of the Lord.

 

Since the Saltpond Community is rightly a spiritual house, the friars are engaged in giving retreats, spiritual direction, counseling, talks, crusades and revivals in their premises or outside. The community has around it mountains and valleys which give a conducive atmosphere to seek the face of God. It enables people to spend enough time with God through its hermitages which has personal chapels and self contained as well.

 

Not to mention, there are friars whose gift and duty is to accompany people to seek and to find God in a welcoming atmosphere where one finds it difficult to leave having come there. Come and see this community.

 

 

by friar Isaac Frimpong (Guardian)