4 Great Reads and a Podcast for the Feast of St. Francis

Friday, October 4, is the Feast of St. Francis. Members of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration and others worldwide will be celebrating the example of our beloved patron saint. Please enjoy some of our top content from the past, relating to living like Francis.

“Francis reacted to much of the injustices occurring around him by behaving counterculturally, by responding in ways that were opposite to the status quo. I believe that we could do the same by fostering the values of joy and humility within ourselves. To do so is radical resistance,  a response to the wrongs in our time.” Read more about St. Francis’ countercultural lifestyle and how it applies to the world today today here, in an essay called “Christian resistance in the style of St. Francis” by Sister Julia Walsh from October 2018.

Find a brief “Ode to Francis” and his multi-faceted faith-expression here.

Discover myriad ways to break out of our complacency and individuality here, in “Gleanings from “The Francis Factor” by Sister Sarah Hennessey (2015).

Be inspired by St. Francis’ poverty and nonviolence in this article, “God make us poor and nonviolent like St. Francis” by Sister Juila Walsh from October 2016.

And finally, learn and laugh with some of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in this podcast “The Messiness of Franciscan Sisterhood” (2023).

Before his death nearly 800 years ago, St Francis said, ‘I have done what was mine to do; may Christ teach you what you are to do.”

Have a blessed Feast of St. Francis!