The Challenge for Our Time
This is the Franciscan challenge in our own time: contemplative seeing, affective response, practical help, and sustained assistance.
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This is the Franciscan challenge in our own time: contemplative seeing, affective response, practical help, and sustained assistance.
The Gospel itself will show us not only how we are to discern the truth, but how the truth leads to the action we call love.
Without the kind of internal conversion of heart that Francis came to in his own life, we can easily find our certainties elsewhere.
The two men recognized in each other a desire for peace and a devotion to their mutual sacred texts, the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Q’uran.
Peace is achieved more effectively by trying to bring out the best, not pointing out the worst, in others.
It was in the spring of 1224 that Francis composed the final poem of his life, The Canticle of Brother Sun. This is a spontaneous outpouring of love and praise that reveals ingenuously the profound unconscious integration that the love of God had affected in his life:
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