"Judgment will be without mercy for those who have not shown mercy." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi #PrayForPeace
"In this we can glory: in our infirmities and in carrying each day the holy cross of our Lord Jesus Christ." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi #HolySaturday
"I need of nothing more. I know Christ, the poor crucified one." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi #GoodFriday
"Look long at the Good Shepherd, who to save his sheep, endured the suffering of the cross." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi #GoodFriday
"Guard yourself, abstain from every evil, and persevere in goodness until the end." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi #LiveTheGospel
"When you look upon a poor person, you see into a mirror of the Lord and his poor mother. Likewise, in the sick you contemplate the kind of infirmities that he took upon himself for us." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi #RememberThePoor
"We must be very alert to the evil subtlety of Satan. His one desire is to keep us from having a heart and mind inclined to our Lord and God." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi #LiveTheGospel #ShareGodsLove #RebuildMyChurch
"Our true friends are those who inflict us with unjust trial and ordeal, shame and injury, sorrow and torment, martyrdom and death. These are the ones we should love most because what they truly impose upon us is eternal life." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi
"What #SaintFrancisOfAssisi teaches us...is that the sort of interior peace which comes from encountering God can 'grow in our hearts, and be extended throughout our community, and then into the world as well.'" #PrayForPeace www.vaticannews.va/en/church/ne...
I attended a workshop on #SaintFrancis and #Buddhism and learned that he did not compose the famous prayer. His disciples wrote it after his death. #StFrancis #StFrancisOfAssisi #SaintFrancisOfAssisi #Prayer
"You eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good when you appropriate for yourself your own will, thus crediting yourself with the good that the Lord says and does in you." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi #Admonitions #BeHumble
"With joy-filled devotion, Francis dwelt in the heavenly mansions and in complete self-emptying, he remained hidden for long hours in the wounds of our Savior. He sought out the solitary places where he could cast his soul entirely upon God." #Lent #Celano #SaintFrancisOfAssisi
"We must not think that the use and value of coins is greater than that of stones. The devil wants to blind those who desire and treasure it more. So let those of us who have left all things behind beware lest for so little we lose the kingdom of heaven." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi #RememberThePoor
My #saintfrancisofassisi statue lost his head
"In this historic moment, we need him." #LiveTheGospel #RebuildMyChurch #SaintFrancisOfAssisi www.ncronline.org/news/display...
"If our hearts are on fire with longing for our heavenly home, we will have no trouble enduring this outer cold." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi
"It is more pleasing to God that we give away the New Testament that we use for prayer rather than keep it. After all, it is this book that teaches us to help the poor." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi #LiveTheGospel
In our new podcast, Brother Patrick reflects on the life and legacy of Blessed Jacoba of Settesoli, one of the dearest friends and closest followers of #SaintFrancisOfAssisi. #FriendsOfFrancis #AssisiProjectPodcast assisiproject.com
"The peace that you preach with words must live even more abundantly in your hearts. Do not provoke others to anger or cause scandal. Instead, let your gentleness draw all people to peace, goodwill, and harmony." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi
“The man of poverty, the man of peace, the man who loves and protects creation.” #PopeFrancis #SaintFrancisOfAssisi #RebuildMyChurch religionnews.com/2026/02/04/8...
"For my part, I possess royal dignity and special nobility in that I follow the Lord, who was rich but became poor for my sake." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi
"Go, announce peace to all people. Preach repentance for the remission of sins. Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and steadfast in weariness." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi
"Francis, Christ's bravest soldier traveled around proclaiming the kingdom of God and preaching #peace and #penance...not in the persuasive words of human wisdom but in the learning and wisdom of the Holy Spirit." #Celano #SaintFrancisOfAssisi #LiveTheGospel #ShareGodsLove #RebuildMyChurch
"Whatever it might be that the Lord wants for you, whether it be health or sickness, let that be what you also want." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi #LiveTheGospel #EmbraceTheCross
In our latest podcast, Brother Patrick narrates a classic reflection on the "Poor Man of God." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi #AssisiProjectPodcast assisiproject.com
"Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love." ~ #SaintFrancisofAssisi
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"Be confident in making your needs known to one another. For each of you, to the extent that God gives you grace, should love and nourish one another as a mother loves and nourishes a child." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi #LiveTheGospel #LoveEachOther
"Guard against all pride, vanity, envy, and avarice, along with the cares and worries of this world, detraction, and complaining." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi
"Let your discourse be brief because the Lord's words were few when he was upon this earth." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi
"The Lord has called me into the way of simplicity and humility, and he has indeed made this way known through me and through all who choose to believe and follow me...He told me that I am to be a new kind of fool in this world." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi #LiveTheGospel #RebuildMyChurch