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Tag: St. Francis

Embracing Joyful Temperance This Fat Tuesday

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“Everyone must study his own nature. Some of you can sustain life with less food than others can, and therefore I desire that he who needs more nourishment shall not be obliged to equal others, but that every one shall give his body what it needs for being an efficient servant of the soul. For […]

What Would Sts. Francis and Clare Do?

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  Looking at the violence in Nigeria and Ukraine, I had to ask myself what would Saints Francis and Clare do? They were no strangers to the blight of war as their city of Assisi was in an ever constant state of conflict with neighboring Perugia. Francis would stand in the breech, like these priests […]

St. Francis on Reverence for the Lord’s Body

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Liturgical abuse was not new to St. Francis, especially when it came to the Holy Eucharist. He writes, “Let us all consider, O clerics, the great sin and ignorance of which some are guilty regarding the most holy Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ and His most holy Name and the written words […]

The Practical Charity of St. Bonaventure

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St. Bonaventure’s meditation upon the seraphic vision of St. Francis, in which he received the stigmata, produced his great treaties — Journey of the Mind into God. There he plumbs the depths of the conformity of St. Francis to Christ, and the meaning of the seraphic wings behind the crucifix: two wings pointing downward — […]

Franciscan Fraternity

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In Francis’s time, the people of an Italian city like Assisi were divided into the “majores” and “minores”. The upper class was known as “majores” the greater ones; the lower class as “minores”, the lesser ones. But it wasn’t from this political and economic milieu that Francis took the word “minori”. Arnaldo Fortini asserts that […]

Praise the Lord!

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Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise ye him in the high places. Praise ye him, all his angels, praise ye him, all his hosts. Praise ye him, O sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars and light. Praise him, ye heavens of heavens: and let all the waters that are above the […]

Turning To Transience In Faith

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St. Francis’ troop of men were all transient beggars. Transience was and is the hallmark of the Franciscans. It was also the mark of a knight, being sent in the service of his liege lord. Christ showed St. Francis that the glory of the knight, his chivalry and his steeled will in battle are not […]

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