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To Live the
Gospel Life is Gift and Grace.
The Lord will Complete what He has Done. – Ps 137
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Franciscan
spirituality is reflected in the rich tradition mirrored in the lives
of St Francis and St Clare of Assisi and other Franciscan spiritual
leaders.
To
follow Jesus with a Franciscan heart is to lead one's life with the
charism of St Francis. St Francis had a passion for peace. He searched
for simplicity. He respected creation. He had empathy for the poor and
lived out his life in self giving.
Hospitality
- a Special Franciscan Care:
Let
the Sisters Manifest their Love in Deeds.
Rule and Life, Tor, Art 3
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Peace
Prayer
Lord,
make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light Where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to
console;
To be understood as to understand; to be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
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Assisi
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Assisi
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Most
High
Glorious God
Enlighten the darkness of my heart
And give me true faith certain hope and perfect charity, sense and knowledge,
Lord
That I may carry out
Your holy and true command
Amen.
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Transitus
The Transitus of
St Francis is celebrated each year in the evening of 3 October. During
this devotion we remember the passing of St Francis from this life to
eternal life with God.
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Transitus
St. Anthony's Convent Bradford
2004
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Transitus
St. Anthony's Convent Bradford
2004
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A
reading from Thomas of Celano
St. Francis spent the last few days before his death in praising the
Lord and teaching his companions whom he loved so much to praise Christ
with him. He himself, in as far as he was able, broke out with the Psalm:
I cry to the Lord with my voice; to the Lord I make loud supplication.
He likewise invited all creatures to praise God and, with the words
he had composed earlier, he exhorted them to love God. Even death itself,
considered by all to be so terrible and hateful, was exhorted to give
praise, while he himself, going joyfully to meet it, invited it to make
its abode with him. "Welcome," he said, "my sister death."
(Celano, Second Life.)
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A
reading from St. Bonaventure
When the hour of his death approached, Francis asked that all of the
brothers living with him be called to his death bed and softening his
departure with consoling words, he encouraged them with fatherly affection
to love God. He spoke of patience and poverty and of being faithful
to the Holy Roman Church, giving precedence to the Holy Gospels before
all else. He then stretched his hands over the brothers in the form
of a cross, a symbol that he loved so much, and gave his blessings to
all followers, both present and absent, in the power and in the name
of the Crucified. Then he added: "Remain, my sons, in the fear
of the Lord and be with him always. And as temptations and trials beset
you, blessed are those who persevere to the end in the life they have
chosen. I am on my way to God and I commend you all to His favour."
With this sweet admonition, this dearly beloved to God, asked that the
book of the Gospels be brought to him and that the passage in the Gospel
of St. John, which begins before the Feast of the Passover be read.
Finally, when all God's mysteries had been accomplished in him, his
holy soul was freed from his body and assumed into the abyss of God's
glory, and Francis fell asleep in God. (Bonaventure, Major Life.)
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Transitus
St. Anthony's Convent Bradford
2004
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The Carceri |
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Francis
to his followers:
All should be
moved to peace,
goodwill, and mercy
because of
your love and
gentleness.
- Rule & Life, Tor, Art.30
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