Saint Francis of Assisi: The Brother of Nature...

  Saint Francis of Assisi One loving, caring, great, human/ saint. Everyone knows the beautiful story of St Francis. The Beloved nature brother is known for his great prayer “Lord make me and instrument of your peace” What a wonderful prayer he made to thank god for creation.

You all know the story of how he loved animals, and cared for all creation; one thing you might not know is that he came from a wealthy family. He was a great kid, but he was just like you and me. He loved to party, loved to be with his friends and wanted to be strong in battle. Becoming a Franciscan never came to his mind while he was young, yes maybe one or twice in the blue moon, but not that whole often. His Wealthy father wanted him to become a business man, for indeed he was good at that, but didn’t want to be in business. He wanted to be strong and a head of an army. And so he did, he got his armor on, made an army and attacked Assisi strongest enemies.

God didn’t want this from Francis, so god spoke to him in a dream to return to Assisi (he was coming back from an the place where he was attacking)  Now Francis did become a Priest/ Franciscan and rebuilt a church that the bishop gave money and said “ let god lead you through this” and that’s what he did.

 

Francis would spend his time in the forest and  would make friends with the lions, bears, wolves, and many dangerous and friendly animals…. He would praise god for all that he did and all that god created. There is a story of a deadly wolf attacking the people of Assisi, because all the people were scared they ran. But one person didn’t… that was Francis, who made friends with the wolf and told him not to attack and to become friendly because gods with him….

Now, that’s a bit about St. Francis, but I want to  focus on the part were he became a priest. This past Sunday ( May 15, 2011) was the weekend for Vocations, and people would like to become a priest. God Called St. Francis and so God calls us(men)to become priests. But, with this big problem now in days with not enough priests, some parishes won’t have a priest. This means not many people are answering Gods call to become priest. This is very unfortunate, and I pray for those that do want to become priest and a dearly ask you to too. 

Thank You,
God Bless.