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What does it meant to pray like a Franciscan?

This question is one that I reflect on regularly. It’s part of my tendency to informally self-evaluate, to ask myself how I am doing at living my vocation. Typically, the question leads me right to Jesus on the cross. As modeled centuries ago by Saints Francis and Clare of Assisi, it’s where I know my gaze is meant to be fixed. I also work to notice what else has my attention and focus. And, I assess how I am doing at living the Franciscan values that I am committed to: poverty, nonviolent Gospel-living, minority, continual conversion and right relationship with all of God’s creation.

Since I am committed to this Franciscan way of life and am working to keep myself in check, I appreciate good resources that help to enrich my prayer life. And I naturally become fascinated when someone who is not a professed Franciscan is the one who helps offers such blessings.

Enter Jon Sweeney and his recently-released prayer book, “Lord Make Me an Instrument of Peace: The Complete Prayers of St. Francis, St. Clare and other early Franciscans.” It’s a gem that I have been appreciating for the past few months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I recently interviewed Jon about the prayer book.

Sister Julia: Does Franciscan spirituality influence you personally?<\/strong>
Jon: I sure hope so. I’ve been inspired by Francis and Clare since I was a teenager and first discovered their way of living the Gospel. That Way is also very much like living the Gospel of Jesus in the Beatitudes. Most of all, I try to be a help to those who are crushed by the world’s cruelties, and I try to turn away from the shiny things that distract us too easily, in favor of the simple way that Francis taught his first followers.<\/em>

Sister Julia : What inspired you to create this prayer book?<\/strong>
Jon: This book is a 17-year labor of love. It was in 2003 that I wrote “The St. Francis Prayer Book,” and it was a result of my own prayer life, and my own attempt to pray in the Way of Francis. Then came “The St. Clare Prayer Book” four years later, and then a decade later I spent a lot of time praying in and through the holy fool themes in early Franciscans like Juniper and Giles, and much of that comprises part three of this book.<\/em>

Sister Julia: What are your hopes for this book?<\/strong>
Jon: I want people to pray with this book. I’ve written other books about the lives of Francis and Clare and about the history of the early Franciscan movement, and there is a lot about those things in here, too. But this is all in the context, and for the purpose, of praying. And then I hope that this Way of Francis, and these ways of praying, will change how people live. If we do prayer right, it can’t help but change how we live.<\/em>

Sister Julia: What new insight did you discover about the Franciscan saints, yourself or prayer while writing this book?<\/strong>
Jon: I found in Francis and Clare a great deal of silence and solitude. We normally associate them easily with preaching, dance, song, juggling, and charming stories of lives interestingly lived; but when you really get into their prayer habits, you find that silence and solitude were essential to them on a daily basis. We can learn from that, too.<\/em><\/p>\n

The book was released in February 2020. More information is available here.\n\n\n\n

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