St. Francis Meditation Twelve: “Rule of Life”
I am blogging a daily meditation for the participants (and others!)
of my class on St. Francis…
This is a summary of the Rule of Life that St. Francis wrote for Secular Franciscans:
- Simplicity and humility in dress.
- Practice Fasting. Be temperate in eating and drinking.
- Pray the Lord’s Prayer before meals.
- Practice the Daily Office, Confession, and the Eucharist
- Reconcile with your neighbors.
- No taking up lethal weapons or bearing them against anyone.
- No frivolous oath taking.
- Gather monthly for mass.
- Aid the sick and dying.
Prayerfully consider this rule of life. Could you adopt St. Francis’s rule? How would you modify it?
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