OSF meaning in Community ?

Answer: What is Order of Saint Francis mean?

Franciscan spirituality in Protestantism refers to spirituality in Protestantism inspired by the Catholic friar Saint Francis of Assisi. Emerging since the 19th century, there are several Protestant adherent and groups, sometimes organised as religious orders, which strive to adhere to the teachings and spiritual disciplines of Saint Francis of Assisi.

The 20th century High Church Movement gave birth to Franciscan inspired orders among revival of religious orders in Protestant Christianity.

One of the results of the Oxford Movement in the Anglican Church during the 19th century was the re-establishment of religious orders, including some of Franciscan inspiration. The principal Anglican communities in the Franciscan tradition are the Community of St. Francis (women, founded 1905), the Poor Clares of Reparation (P.C.R.), the Society of Saint Francis (men, founded 1934), and the Community of St. Clare (women, enclosed). There is also a Third Order known as the Third Order Society of St Francis (T.S.S.F.).

There are three other U.S.-founded orders within the Anglican Communion - the Seattle-founded Second Order of The Little Sisters of St. Clare (LSSC) in the Diocese of Olympia [1]), the dispersed First Order Order of Saint Francis (OSF) founded in 2003, and the Community of Francis and Clare (CFC) which is a dispersed, open, inclusive, and contemporary expression of Anglican/ Episcopal Franciscan life open to men and women.

There are also some small Franciscan communities within European Protestantism and the Old Catholic Church. There are some Franciscan orders in Lutheran Churches, including the Order of Lutheran Franciscans, the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary, and the Evangelische Kanaan Franziskus-Bruderschaft (Kanaan Franciscan Brothers). In addition, there are associations of Franciscan inspiration not connected with a mainstream Christian tradition and describing themselves as ecumenical or dispersed.

Both the Anglicans and also the Lutheran Church has third orders in emulation of the Catholic ones. The Anglicans has a "Third Order of Saint Francis (TSSF)", with the same name as the Catholic third order, the Third Order of Saint Francis, and Lutherans have an Order of Lutheran Franciscans.

reference

Full Form	Category
Operation Support Facility	Academic & Science
Operational Support Facility	Academic & Science
Open Science Framework	Academic & Science
Open Source Folks	Business
Oil Sands Sector Fund	Business
Outsourcing Factory	Business
Office of State Finance	Business
Omaha Schools Foundation	Community
Order of Saint Francis	Community
Old Style Figures	Community
Order Of St Francis	Community
Oregon Shakespere Festival	Community
Oregon Shakespeare Festival	Community
Franciscan Sisters (Allegany)	Community
sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia	Community
Open Source File	Computing
Operations System Function	Computing
One Step Further	Computing
Open System Foundation	Computing
Open Stack Foundation	Computing
Open Security Framework	Computing
Ordinateurs Sans Frontieres	Computing
Outrage Sound Format	File Type
Over Sampling Factor	General
Open Systems Foundation	General
Orphaned Starfish Foundation	General
Open Source Folder	General
Organ System Failure	General
Old Skool Ford	General
Other Safety Features	General
Open Semantic Framework	General
Open Society Foundations	General
Old Spaghetti Factory	General
Saint Francis	General
One Sexy F***er	General
Operations Support Facility	General
Order Sorting Filter	General
Order Sorted Featured	General
On Scene Forces	Governmental
Off-Side Front	Governmental
Optimal Solutions Found	Maths
Operational Support Facility ( Orlando)	Military and Defence
Open Software Foundation	Military and Defence
Object Strike Force	Military and Defence
Observed Support Frequency	Military and Defence
Office of Space Flight	Space Science
Ordnance Storage Facility	Space Science
Our Soccer Field	Sports
Osaka Stock Futures 50	Stock Exchange