4 Truths from St. Francis of Assisi
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
St. Francis of Assisi loved nature and talked to birds, but is there more to him than that? Of course there is! The life of St. Francis of Assisi is filled with incredible examples of doing God’s will and emptying oneself for God’s sake. There is so much we can learn from St. Francis and Dr. Edward Sri outlines four of those lessons in this episode.
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It is essential that we set aside our feelings as we strive to do God’s will because more often than not, it will be difficult to do God’s will.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic, where real faith meets real life. |
| 0:14.5 | This week the Catholic Church celebrates another amazing saint, one of the most famous saints |
| 0:18.8 | in the Catholic tradition, and that is Saint Francis of Assisi. |
| 0:22.7 | Now when people get a picture in their mind of Saint Francis of Assisi, what are they |
| 0:26.8 | pictures? They picture, you know, him talking to the birds, or they picture him with animals, |
| 0:31.4 | they picture him out in nature, and brother, son, and sister moon, and they go think of all |
| 0:38.2 | these things about nature, the environment, animals, and okay, that there's a part of that, |
| 0:44.0 | that expresses who Francis was, but that's not the heart, that's not the very center of who he was. |
| 0:49.4 | Very few people ever think about the cross when it comes to Francis, and yet it was the cross |
| 0:55.4 | that was the center of his spiritual life, it was the turning point in his walk with God, |
| 1:00.4 | it was a key part of his conversion story, the cross, and it wasn't just the cross in general, |
| 1:05.6 | it was the suffering Jesus, seeing Jesus, giving everything, everything to God out of love. |
| 1:12.5 | That's a lot more challenging, you know, in other words, many people love the whole, you know, |
| 1:18.0 | nature loving Francis, right, because it's easier to hug your dog than it is to encounter Jesus |
| 1:23.2 | in the cross. It's easier to go on a nature walk or enjoy a beautiful sunset than it is to pick |
| 1:28.7 | up your cross every day and follow Jesus like Francis did. And what we're going to do is take a |
| 1:33.8 | look at the real Francis, the real Saint Francis of the Seas, a man who is in love with the cross, |
| 1:41.0 | and he found his happiness, his joy, his fulfillment in the cross of Jesus Christ, and that's what we're |
| 1:46.9 | going to look at in this week's podcast, so welcome to all things Catholic. I'm your host, |
| 1:50.8 | Edward Sree, want to welcome any new listeners joining us for the first time, especially those from |
| 1:56.1 | two cities where I was at this last week. First of all, Colorado Springs, my wife Beth and I, |
| 2:01.7 | we got to go down and do a marriage conference down in the diocese there. So a wonderful group of |
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