{"id":24558,"date":"2009-04-21T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/the-gift-of-saint-francis-way\/"},"modified":"2009-04-21T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T17:00:00","slug":"the-gift-of-saint-francis-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/the-gift-of-saint-francis-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Francis&#8217; Way in the World: the encounter with Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/RCantalamessa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px 20px\" height=\"162\" alt=\"RCantalamessa.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/RCantalamessa-thumb-200x162.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher of the Pontifical Household, spoke to the participants in the <em>Chapter of the Mats<\/em> in Assisi, on the occasion of the eighth centenary of the Church&#8217;s oral approval of the&nbsp;life proposed by&nbsp;Saint Francis of Assisi.<\/p>\n<p>Friar Raniero gives the reader a terrific sense of the Franciscan charism through the centuries but resting on the one and only central aspect of Franciscan life: Christ is everything. His&nbsp;point is&nbsp;that believe&nbsp;that Francis is really unimportant in comparison to following Christ because our salvation comes not from following Francis but Christ crucified and risen. That is, Francis kept his focus on Christ and Christ alone &#8211;and we ought to do the same. Hence what we ought to do is to closely follow Christ with the assistance of Saint Francis (and the Franciscan saints). As Francis kept his eyes on Christ so ought we to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>The text of his remarks is&nbsp;found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenit.org\/article-25661?l=english\">here<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher of the Pontifical Household, spoke to the participants in the Chapter of the Mats in Assisi, on the occasion of the eighth centenary of the Church&#8217;s oral approval of the&nbsp;life proposed by&nbsp;Saint Francis of Assisi. Friar Raniero gives the reader a terrific sense of the Franciscan charism through the centuries &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/the-gift-of-saint-francis-way\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Francis&#8217; Way in the World: the encounter with Christ<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1773,2064,2063],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}