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I have planned and used the Franciscan Values in my life time by helping out others like my friends, family, teachers, co workers, bosses, my peers, and elders. Respect is an important value for me when it comes to everyone. I like to give and get respect I will always respect everybody and they should do the Same. I show respect by listening to others when they're talking like my teacher when she is in class, giving a the new lesson for that day I give my undivided attention. Also being there…

his plays. William Shakespeare uses members of the Franciscan Order, who at the time were most despised by protestant reformers, as characters in his plays to show support for the Catholic Church. Three of his plays, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado about Nothing, and Measure for Measure, feature prominent Franciscan characters. Shakespeare portrays these characters as helpful and concerned characters which was not typical of the ways Franciscans were portrayed in English literature of the same…

The Franciscan Way, something that sounds much easier than it seems. Something that I had never quite cherished until I began my journey to achieve my colligate education, but something I think everyone should aspire to work into their day to day lives. In my opinion, the most important Franciscan Value is compassion. Compassion is defined as “a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering”…

shared in Franciscan companionship. As I looked around the grounds of the friary and saw our Franciscan Charism flowing among those in attendance, I thought to myself this is what our Charism is all about, sharing, loving, caring, allowing the Holy Spirit to move in us and through others. Thanks to all for the wonderful job in pulling this picnic together. Without your fraternal love and giving of yourself we could not have succeeded in providing wonderful fellowship with our Franciscan…

The Franciscan Servant Scholar Program is a program which would help me continue my journey I have started during my high school career of finding my true callings for service, faith and my future career. I hope the Franciscan Servant Scholar Program can help me build upon my passions and find my calling for my future career. My passion is helping others I’ve found that by volunteering. I want to make a difference in the lives of people in need and children. Because of my experience as a Youth…

that a person is supposed to do in their life: elementary school, high school, college, full-time job, etc. In the seventh grade I decided that my dream was to attend Franciscan University for my Bachelor’s Degree. What society forgets to tell young adults is the struggles that they will go through to get where they desire. Franciscan is an expensive education and I had to make many sacrifices to get here. In high school, I had to choose between spending time with my friends and picking up…

The article is called Sexuality in California's Franciscan Missions by Albert L. Hurtado. This article tells us about sexuality in the Mission. Albert purpose for writing this article called Sexuality In California’s Franciscan Missions was to explain how the natives people at this time were affected. The ways that were affected by their religion believes. According to christianity this was wrong to do. It was known to be harm and as well committing a sin. By what they believed in they were…

Poverty” is Joan Mueller’s attempt to reincorporate the women of the Franciscan Order and the role they played during their medieval time back into the early Franciscan history that is often written without any mention of them. Joan Mueller seeks to correct that problematic gap, lacking women’s voices and experiences, in the historiography of the early Franciscan movement. To accomplish this goal, she focuses on the history of the Franciscan Rule of St. Clare which was finally approved in 1253,…

objective affiliated with Isabelle Huellant-Donant’s article “Martyrdom and Identity in the Franciscan Order (Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries)” is an attempt to analyze, utilizing documentation pertaining to the Franciscan Order and Papal legislation, the mendicant order’s perception of martyrdom, specifically in regards to the application of martyrdom directed towards the constituents of the Franciscan Order . The article also assesses the correlated development of institutionalized…

While there he took up the name Anthony. Very soon after joining the order he started his journey to Morocco, which was the same place the first martyrs of the Franciscan Order died. Shortly after starting his journey his plans to go to Morocco were discontinued due to a severe sickness. In the spring of 1221, Fernando wanted to sail back to Spain, however a storm made Fernando stop in Sicily, a large island off…