Commitment : The Gospel's Human Face – Secular Franciscans

Being a Secular Franciscan is about living in the world, not in an enclosed community.  We are not isolated from the Church nor the world, instead we aim to bring both together by following the example of St Francis – enriching God’s Creation with the Gospel of Christ.

Commitment:

If we only knew the desire of the heart of Francis to give a human face to the Gospel

for the people of our world.

Would we then walk more boldly? Study more earnestly? Live more vigorously? Animated by a rule that calls us

to a world dying in a drought of love?

What will we leave to our world? What will be our gift as we commit ourselves to this Rule

for Secular Franciscans?

Think it through. Realise how precious is the gift of your commitment. Every day begun with praise and ending with thanks

with a middle that is a Gospel lifestyle.

Here’s to you, gracious God, and your Son, Jesus, and his Spirit dwelling in us. What a privilege to proclaim this Trinity of lovers

who is one God.

Poem from : To Catch Me a Rainbow Too – 1997 [Page 113]
Lester Bach OFM Cap

Image: A mural of St Francis by Héctor Rios
at the Franciscan Renewal Centre, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

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