To celebrate Catholic200SG, our Franciscan Parish in Singapore (St Mary of the Angel) is organising a month-long event that will get people off their screens, out and about and movin’ with their family and friends! There will be Catholic200SG giveaways and special prizes to be won!
Watch our friars lead the way!
Find out more and register at: https://stmary.sg/getmoving/
The Canticle of the Creatures is a hymn of praise that recapitulates Francis’ journey to God in and through the beautiful things of creation… But the Canticle also represents a lifetime of conversion, as Francis strove to be a brother to all things and to praise God in the cloister of the universe despite his sufferings, feelings of abandonment and darkness. In the Canticle, composed one year before he died and while he was laying ill in a small dark hut near San Damiano, Francis sang of the human family (brother-sister- mother) as the model for all relationships. The Canticle of the Creatures is the capstone of his theological vision.
The Canticle reminds us that we humans are as dependent on the elements of creation as they are dependent on us. With his marvellous respect for creatures of all kinds, for sun, moon, stars, water, wind, fire and earth, Francis came to see that all creation gives praise to God. Brother Sun and Sister Moon praise God just by being sun and moon. …
As the final song of his life, the Canticle reveals to us Francis’ deep reflection on the mystery of the Incarnation. For Francis it is the Incarnation that gives insight into the goodness of the created world as the sacrament of God. Creation and Incarnation are intimately united in such a way that we cannot truly grasp our relationship to creation apart from understanding our relationship to Jesus Christ.
Francis’ relationship to Christ did not follow a narrow path but grew to the widest possible horizon. The deeper he grew in relationship with Christ, the more he found himself intimately related to the things of creation as brother. We might say that his relationship with Christ changed his internal focus. He developed a deeper consciousness of “relatedness” and came to realise he was related to all things no matter how small, because everything shared in the primordial goodness of God, the source of his own life. Francis discovered that he was part of the cosmic family of creation.
An excerpt from Ilia Delio, OSF, “A Franciscan View of Creation: Learning to Live in a Sacramental World.” Volume 2 of The Franciscan Heritage Series. Published by The Franciscan Institute, St Bonaventure University, St Bonaventure, NY, 2003.
Ikuti perkongsian Friar David Au, OFM dalam ???? ??????????? ????: Perihal Perkahwinan Menutur Ajaran Gereja Katolik yang dibawakan oleh St Ann Catholic Church Kota Padawan.
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As part of the Friday Growth Series (A Call to Holiness) organised by the Catholic Spirituality Centre, Friar Derrick Yap was invited to share on Franciscan Spirituality.
In his talk entitled ‘Touch of an Embrace’ , Friar Derrick mentioned that ‘touch is really a very important part of our Franciscan spirituality.’
Find out and experience yourself the touching struggle, touching beauty, touching the deformed and finally touched to conform.
Ikuti perkongsian Friar Don Don Ramerez, OFM dalam ???? ??????????? ????: ????????? ??????? ???????? ????? ????????? yang dibawakan oleh St Ann Catholic Church Kota Padawan melalui Youtube video yang berikut :
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