The Society of St Francis: Province of the Divine Compassion

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In this issue:

Franciscan Schools Australia: Inaugural Conference. Sr Pauline Robinson mfic writes; the aim of the Conference was to bring together Franciscan Educators to be exposed to the rich heritage of things Franciscan.

Reflecting on Clare of Assisi. Sr Pat Cullen fmm writes; in her first letter to Agnes, Clare is already established as an outstanding contributor to the Gospel spirituality of Saint Francis.

Franciscan Vocation. Br William ssf writes; few can follow Francis in his unique path of life. It was too hard, too heroic for most of us. But we do sense that simplicity of life is a blessing, that small is beautiful and voluntary poverty is liberating.

Br Ghislain of Taizé visits Cannon Hill Anglican College. Fr Tom Sullivan, CHAC chaplain writes; the Brother’s message for our senior students was very simple, that regardless of life’s experiences we can always find hope.

Franciscan Angles August 07

The Society of St Francis, together with Queensland Churches together, will be hosting a visit by Br Ghislain from the Taize Community in France. There will be an eccumenical prayer service at the Cathedral of St Stephen (249 Elizabeth St Brisbane), on Thursday the 26th July, led by Br Ghislain. For further information contact Br James Andrew or call (07) 3391 3915.

This is for Brothers using the franciscan email. The franciscan website and email have been moved to a new server as of a few minutes ago. The only change you should notice is that instead of typing your email address as the username, you now log in using your username.franciscan. e.g. If I were Brother Matthew, I would login as brmatthew.franciscan using my usual password from the old server. I’ve put this message up to help those who may have lost my email or didn’t read it earlier this week. You can contact me via Brother Donald or Brother Nathan if you have issues. — Matt

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In this issue;

Becoming Prayer: A Journey from Contemplative to Active Prayer, Br Nathan-James
Heavenly Family, Br William
Francis and the Leper, Br Donald Campbell
St Mark’s Theological Students Explore Community at Stroud Hermitage, Br Bruce-Paul

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Random acts of writing from an itinerant soul. Br Nathan-James has commenced his new blog The Mendicant Mind and Body. Feel free to drop by and add your thoughts, comments.

Hi and welcome to the new SSF website which has many of the same information pages of the previous website but now uses WordPress to make the website. This should make it easier for the brothers to update the site and for you to see any changes to the content as it will show up on the front page.

Br William has started a blog exploring the interface between science and religion. The Divine Universe

About the prayer school

The Prayer School has been developed as a way to share and experience different ways of praying. Whilst we feel drawn to deepen our relationship with God through prayer we sometimes find we do not know how to pray as we ought (Rom 8:26). Others, like The Pilgrim, find it hard to pray without ceasing (1 Thess 5:17) as St Paul urges us to do.

The Prayer School draws on ancient, contemporary and creative ways of praying to present tools for renewing our prayer life; helping us to pray when it is difficult to do so.

The Prayer School can be offered in different formats; it can be either residential or non-residential; as a complete program or sessions may be offered individually.

If you would like to organise to have the prayer school run in your parish or community please contact Br Nathan-James brnathan@franciscan.org.au

Download a copy of the brochure A prayer School PDF.

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