Following Francis

Author : Susan Pitchford
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0819222356

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In a little town in Italy, nearly eight hundred years ago, Francis of Assisi renounced everything he owned to follow Christ with passionate and single-minded abandon. Even today, centuries later, this simple saint draws people around the world to his story of living in humility, love, and joy. Here in Following Francis, Susan Pitchford tells her own story of the Franciscan life, as a member of the Third Order, founded by Francis himself so that people from all walks of life can follow the saint's ideal, without leaving their homes or occupations. Pitchford learned that the Franciscan tradition isn't the exclusive possession of monks cloistered in a monastery, but a spiritual path for ordinary people living in the twenty-first century. Organized around the Rule of St. Francis, this book - a wonderful resource for private devotion or group study - shows readers what it means to live out the Christian life with a Franciscan accent.

Author : Susan Pitchford
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780819226624

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Following Francis by Susan Pitchford Pdf

A wonderful resource to guide admirers of the humblest of saints what it means to live out the Christian life with a Franciscan accent. In a little town in Italy, nearly 800 years ago, Francis of Assisi renounced everything he owned to follow Christ with passionate and single-minded abandon. Even today, centuries later, this simple saint draws people around the world to his story of living in humility, love, and joy. Here in Following Francis, Susan Pitchford tells her own story of the Franciscan life, as a member of the Third Order, founded by Francis himself so that people from all walks of life can follow the saint's ideal, without leaving their homes or occupations. Pitchford learned that the Franciscan tradition isn't the exclusive possession of monks cloistered in a monastery, but a spiritual path for ordinary people living in the 21st century.

Author : Francis Chalifour
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781770490543

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After by Francis Chalifour Pdf

Nominated for the Governor General's Literary Awards 2005, (Children's Literature, Text) Fifteen-year-old Francis’s father has committed suicide and nothing will be the same again. Suicide is ugly, unglamorous, and it is never a solution. Its aftermath is dreadful. At first, Francis feels a terrible guilt. Could he have been a better son? What if he hadn’t left his home in Montreal to go on a brief holiday in New York the weekend it happened? Soon the guilt turns to anger and then to a sadness so profound that he thinks he can’t bear it. After is the map of a year following the suicide of a family member. In the course of months, with the love of his mother, with counseling, and with the balm of time, Francis takes his first steps toward coming to terms with his father’s – and his family’s – tragedy. After is intensely personal, but it will resonate with anyone who has faced the loss of a loved one. This brilliant autobiographical first novel is an acute analysis of the grieving process. Although it is steeped in Francis’s sadness, it is ultimately a story of hope.

Author : William R. Cook
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556357305

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Francis of Assisi by William R. Cook Pdf

My task . . . is to rely as much as possible on both written and visual sources, although I obviously must consider the discoveries and insights of modern scholarship, in order to present Francis of Assisi as a major figure in the mystical tradition. This means I will not be much concerned with Francis as the founder of a religious order. I will not present a detailed biography, although the first chapter provides a general overview in order to make the more detailed discussions of his spirituality more intelligible. Rather than attempt to discuss all texts by and about Francis of a mystical nature, I shall instead focus on six elements of his life and spirituality--his conversion; his relationship to the created world; the creation of the Christmas crib at Greccio; the role of learning; the relationship between the active and contemplative life; and his stigmatization at LaVerna in 1224, two years before his death. I believe that a detailed discussion and analysis of these aspects of Francis's life will best introduce the reader to Francis of Assisi.--from the Introduction

Author : Candide Chalippe
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734017537

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The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi by Candide Chalippe Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi by Candide Chalippe

Author : John V. Tolan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199239726

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Saint Francis and the Sultan by John V. Tolan Pdf

In September, 1219, Francis of Assisi went to Egpyt to preach to Sultan al-Malik al-Kâmil. John Tolan examines the varying depictions of this brief but highly significant meeting and how they reveal the changing fears and hopes that Muslim-Christian encounters have inspired in European artists and writers in the centuries since.

Author : Andrew T. McCarthy
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780761852513

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Francis of Assisi as Artist of the Spiritual Life by Andrew T. McCarthy Pdf

Francis of Assisi as Artist of the Spiritual Life applies modern psychological understanding to a historical person. While most such studies have sought a comprehensive personality profile, this work focuses on one aspect — Francis' imagination — and seeks greater insight into the imaginatively inspired spiritual vision of St. Francis. An analysis of Francis' writings builds on a survey of modern views of the imagination and the approach of ORT, or Object Relations Theory. ORT, with its contention that the imaginative creation of an infant's world develops out of the earliest interactions with the maternal caregiver, highlights the way Francis formed his way of visualizing the reality around him. While any study of a person 800 years in the grave is more dependent on what is plausible than on what is determinable, this study finds numerous examples where Francis' writings display an adept use of imagination and even encourages others in that use in a manner that corresponds to an ORT perspective on tutoring the imagination.

Author : Michael F. Cusato
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789148282

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Francis of Assisi by Michael F. Cusato Pdf

An accessible introduction to the life of this most-venerated saint. This book is an accessible biography of Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan religious order and one of the most venerated figures in Christianity. In it, Michael F. Cusato explores how Francis and his early brothers embraced a life of poverty in solidarity with the lowest ranks of society, preaching a message of justice and dignity for all. He examines how and why Francis’s vision ultimately expanded to embrace non-Christians and Muslims in particular following Francis’s celebrated encounter with the Sultan al-Malik al-Kamil in 1219. Finally, Cusato considers the clash between Francis and newer members of his Order, his reception of the stigmata, and his final years defending his vision among his own brothers, all while living as an exemplar of the gospel life.

Author : PAMFILO de MAGLIANO
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BDM:13020100006884

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The life of Saint Francis of Assisi... by PAMFILO de MAGLIANO Pdf

Author : Noel Muscat, OFM
Publisher : TAU Franciscan Communicatins - Malta
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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“VOCE MEA AD DOMINUM CLAMAVI”: FRANCIS, THE BROTHERS, AND THE ANGUISH OF SOLITUDE by Noel Muscat, OFM Pdf

Our aim in this work will be that of discovering the true nature of Francis’ inner anguish, the solitude he was bound to suffer at seeing the brothers taking a different course from the one he cherished. At the same time, however, we shall try to understand what the brothers also were feeling regarding Francis, and why they also were convinced that the way forward was bound to be slightly or radically different from the original proposal of the founder. Our aim is that of taking into consideration what the sources have to say regarding the last years and moments of Francis’ life, and present them within the context of events unfolding in the Order, which were already pointers at future choices and directions that the Order would take in the decades immediately following upon the death of the founder.

Author : John Haule
Publisher : SteinerBooks
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781584204688

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The Ecstasies of St. Francis by John Haule Pdf

The Great Initiates encompasses long centuries of human existence and reflects our great search--the greatest search of all--the quest for the spirit. This book describes the motivations behind external history, the growth of religious striving, the rise and fall of cultures, and indicates their importance for us today. It reflects the lives and deeds of human beings of extraordinary stature: Rama, Krishna, Hermes, Moses, Orpheus, Pythagoras, Plato, and Jesus. In these pages one witnesses spiritual adventure of a depth and intensity rarely experienced by creative human beings, even in their most exalted moments. This excitement of discovery which breathes through The Great Initiates may well explain its continuing popularity after over a century.

Author : Michael de La Bédoyère
Publisher : Sophia Institute Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780918477897

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Francis of Assisi by Michael de La Bédoyère Pdf

Meet the man behind the myths. This book takes you beyond the nature-lover of popular myth to the real St. Francis of Assisi, model of holiness and Christian courage. You'll learn the full story behind the famous incidents in Francis's life, including his hugging the leper and his sermon to the birds. St. Francis of Assisi is a superb model for each of us today: an ordinary man who - by God's grace - was able to do extraordinary things.

Author : Regis J. Armstrong,J. A. Wayne Hellmann,William J. Short
Publisher : New City Press
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781565481145

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Francis of Assisi - The Prophet: Early Documents, vol. 3 by Regis J. Armstrong,J. A. Wayne Hellmann,William J. Short Pdf

The Prophet is the third volume in this extraordinary series of "the writings of Saint Francis and those of the early Franciscan witnesses" and it will "be of estimable value to scholars, students, and lovers of Il Poverello as well...a scholarly achievement done in the service of history, theology and spirituality." (Lawrence Cunningham)

Author : Gary Paulsen
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780440412700

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Call Me Francis Tucket by Gary Paulsen Pdf

Alone. Francis Tucket now feels more confident that he can handle almost anything. A year ago, on the wagon train, he was kidnapped from his family by a Pawnee hunting party. Then he escaped with the help of the mountain man, Mr. Grimes. Now that he and Mr. Grimes have parted ways, Francis is heading west on his Indian pony, crossing the endless prairie, trying to find his family. After a year with Mr. Grimes, Francis has learned to live by the harsh code of the wilderness. He can cause a stampede, survive his own mistakes, and face up to desperadoes. But when he rescues a little girl and her younger brother, Francis takes on more than he bargained for.

Author : Helen Walker Homan
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0898705177

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Francis and Clare, Saints of Assisi by Helen Walker Homan Pdf

A Vision Book about St. Francis and St. Clare, the two very popular saints of Assisi. Helen Homan has captured all the excitement and beauty of the lives of these saints from their childhood growing up together in Assisi to their profound conversion and lifelong influence�indeed centuries-long influence�on the whole world through their radical living of the Gospel and founding of two great religious orders, the Franciscans and the Poor Clares. Combining the stories of Francis and Clare in one volume makes for a book that will be of great interest to both boys and girls of a wide age span. Illustrated. Cover art by Chris Pelicano This book is now part of Renaissance Learning's Accelerated Reader program. Quizzes are currently available.