#st.francis

[quaesumus]

[statue-art]

Our get so many compliments on our St Francis statue. It is very high quality and I can tell it will last a long time.

[symeonae]

Excerpts from a poem attributed to St. Francis, from 'The Franciscan poets in Italy of the thirteenth century', Frédéric Ozanam

[themindfulword]

WHY I AM STILL CATHOLIC: It offers me what I need

When you enter my apartment, you will not see a framed photograph of me, beaming, standing next to the pope. People who've been in my apartment for a few hours have asked me if I'm Jewish—I get that a lot. No doubt, these folks missed the Catholic church calendar in the kitchen, and the plastic rosary hanging on a nail near the door, above my walking stick and shoes. Without Google, I could not hold up my end in the rare theological debates I do enter into. I'm not even named after a saint. I believe that women and married men should be allowed to be priests, and I don't make it to mass every Sunday. Even so, I am Catholic. Read the full article

[reecie003-blog]

What a man is before God, that he is; and nothing more

St. Francis of Assisi, Admonition IX

[revscarecrowart]

Part 3 of the st Francis painting I've been working on. Hopefully I can start on the details next time

[deoadjuvante]

Thou wishest to know why it is I whom men follow? Thou wishest to know? It is because the eyes of the Most High have willed it thus; he continually watches the good and the wicked, and as his most holy eyes have not found among sinners any smaller man, nor any more insufficient and more sinful, therefore he has chosen me to accomplish the marvellous work which God has undertaken; he chose me because he could find no one more worthless, and he wished here to confound the nobility and grandeur, the strength, the beauty, and the learning of this world.”

St. Francis of Assisi, From “Life of St. Francis of Assisi.”, Paul Sabatier.

[omisan]

Found this on one of my hikes on my way to sunset trail in the sgm.