Memory Eternal
Those Who Have
Gone Before Us
We do not forget our dead. We carry them with us — in our prayers, in our Office, in the work we continue in their name. This page is their place among us.
“I am the Resurrection and the Life. Whoever believes in Me, though he die, yet shall he live.”
— John 11:25
Bishop Emeritus
John Sebastian Lula
Founder & Bishop Protector, OFMO
May 1947 † April 18, 2026
He founded this community in faith, served it in humility, and departed it in peace. The Franciscan Friars of the Forsaken exist because he believed the forsaken deserved brothers willing to go to them.
May his Memory be Eternal
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord,
and let perpetual light shine upon them.
May their souls, and the souls of all the faithful departed,
through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
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