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FRANCIS: NEW MONASTIC PIONEER RESEARCH CONVERSATIONS 2014

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“It’s what always happens to the saints and prophets who are dangerous: we bronze

them, we drain them of their passion and life and trap them in stained-glass windows and icons, confirming them safely

in memories of the past.” Shane Claibourne

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Francis created a popular expression of the Church; the

mystery of the Church becomes concrete in the

small fraternity of brothers in contact with the people and

with the poorest of the people of God.”

Leonardo Boff theologian and contemporary biographer of St. Francis

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F R A N C I S ’ F R E S H E X P R E S S I O N

• Engaging in inter-faith dialogue

• Committed to the environment

• Loving the poor

• Living opposite to consumerism

• Pioneering in nature

• Centred on Christ

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“We have to avoid the spiritual sickness of a self-referential church. It’s true that

when you get out onto the street, as happens to every man and woman,

there can be accidents. However, if the church remains closed in on itself, self-

referential, it gets old. Between a church that suffers accidents in the

street, and a church that’s sick because it’s self-referential, I have no doubts

about preferring the former.” Pope Francis

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Q U E S T I O N S F R A N C I S A S K S U S

• Communities of mission

• Sending places

• Incarnational approach

• Perceptions of monasticism

• Monastic movements that challenge the church

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“Through his deep humanity, Francis of Assisi has become an archetype of the human ideal: open to God, universal brother, and caretaker of nature &

of mother Earth. He belongs not only to Christianity but to

mankind.” Boff

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