Saturday, February 9, 2019: Our Province Custody of the Immaculate Conception of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) celebrated the Silver Jubilee of professed religious life of our brothers Frei Ronaldo Gomes da Silva, OFM Conv., Frei Carlos Roberto de Oliveira Charles, OFM Conv., Frei Donil Alves Junior, OFM Conv. and Frei Ignácio Silva Fábregas, OFM Conv.  The Celebration Mass was presided over by the Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Bishop Roque Costa Souza, and concelebrated with the Bishop Emeritus of Valença, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Bishop Elias James Manning, OFM Conv.  The Mass was held in the São Francisco de Assis Mother Church, Rio Comprido, Rio de Janeiro, and attended by parishioners from several parishes assisted by the friars, as well as friends, diocesan priests and other Religious men and women. The festivities continued with a fraternal welcome to all participants with a cake reading: “Our lives will be what our choices are.”