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The Third Order, Society of St Francis Volume 7.3 St Francistide 2007 Preach the Gospel everywhere. Use words if necessary: St Francis parts of our family with other surnames, and From the Minister Provincial we have a sense of pride and mutual care with Dear brothers and sisters in St Francis. our extended kin. We need both the intimacy the nuclear family gives us and the identity the Happy Feast of Saint Francis! With the wider family bestows on us. That’s not to say worldwide Franciscan family we celebrate the the Witham family is perfect – far from it. life of our founder. We thank God for the example set by Saint Francis as a follower of Nor is the Franciscan community perfect, and Jesus. we grumble sometimes about our area group – or about those people on Chapter! But for the St Francistide is traditionally the time when most part, the community works. We know in tertiary groups gather. What a great our smaller groups that we are loved and opportunity to be together whether for just a growing in intimacy. We know that we share few hours or a couple of days. ‘Franciscan DNA’ with other tertiaries in our It is also a traditional time for Professions. If Region and in the Province, and so when we do you are being professed this Francistide, I wish meet, we recognise each other as ‘family’ and you a warm welcome to the Third Order as a experience its mutual care. full member. So at St Francistide we celebrate not only our Making your profession with a larger group of father Francis, but also our sisters and brothers brothers and sisters is a wonderful reminder of and the way each of us individual Christians is the yet larger groups around you: surrounded by their care. the Region and our Province; The early Franciscans marked the period from the other four Provinces; the Stigmata (September 17) until the eve of St the whole Society of Saint Francis; Francis’ Day (October 3) as a ‘little Lent’, Third Order members in other churches; keeping it as a time of fasting and recollection. all Franciscan Orders in the Anglican and This meant that St Francis’ Day itself could other communions. explode into a lively party. My prayer is that ‘We are surrounded by so great a cloud of you will find joy and vitality as you celebrate witnesses”, as the writer encouraged the St Francistide this year. Whether or not you Christian Hebrews. can meet with other tertiaries around this time, These mark the inner and outer boundaries of do take joy and strength in remembering your strong communities: the intimacy of our Franciscan family and its love for you. immediate group, and being able to identify with a far-flung group. The Witham family, Peace, joy and love, like all families, starts with just Rae, me, and our children. In this ‘nuclear’ family, we are deeply known and appreciate how much we are Ted Witham loved. Yet there are other families we identify with, other Witham's, other Kendell's, other Our website is under construction at www.tssf.org.au 1 Growing in Faith 1. Become aware of and reflect upon how I am neglecting or being unkind to Grafton Area Retreat others. 2. Ask; how can I break out of that cycle From Hilary Clifton . and bring God’s transforming love? One way to journey deeper into Christian faith 3. Pray about it and then take action. is to explore our Trinitarian God through the window of St. Francis. St. Francis was St. Francis had a simple but effective way of passionate about Jesus and exemplified His bringing peace everywhere he went. By deep compassion for the poor and suffering. He greeting everyone he met with “The peace of was exuberant about Jesus the source and the Lord be with you” he spoke peace and sustainer of all creation and expressed this joy became peace. It is very hard to speak these in a love for the environment and all living words whilst at the same time holding things. St. Francis had experienced the horrors negativity, anger or discord, and in changing of war first hand and chose a better way by ourselves the response of others may also uniting himself with Jesus in the pursuit of change. Try it, and see if it works! peace. And so a small group of Third Order The Regional Minister, the Reverend Cleone Franciscans from the Grafton Area together Rolfe-Reardon, had the pleasure of admitting with friends and enquirers set aside time to Barry Chambers from the Kingscliff Parish as a retreat. Novice to the Third Order. This means that for We met at the Star of the Sea, Yamba, from a period of about two years a person explores Monday 23 rd to Wednesday 25 th July with this way whilst living out a ‘rule of life’ to Bishop Keith serving as retreat leader. determine whether they are in the right path Together we explored what it means to practise and wish to commit to a lifetime practice. healthy humility as a reflection of one of the Congratulations Barry! characteristics of God. Too often humility is misinterpreted as a dysfunctional subservience instead of a loving and creative sharing of ourselves with each other just as Jesus modelled in the washing of His disciples’ feet. We pondered the legendary view of St. Francis which is often romanticised beyond belief and (L to R ) Michael Hobbs (area conven or), Cleone questioned the emphasis on self within a post- Rolfe-Reardon (regional minister), Mr. Barry modern and hypercompetitive world. There is Chambers (newly noviced) and Bishop Keith Slater (Bishop of Grafton Diocese). truth in the legend of St. Francis – he was joyful and freed himself from the constraints of Morning and Evening Prayer and a celebration polite society in order to worship God with of the Eucharist brought us closer together as a every fibre of his being, even if that zeal was loving and worshipping community. A Taizé too much for most people! worship service gave us the opportunity to sing, reflect and pray in a different style of Keeping our feet on the ground, at least some gentle meditation. of the time, we learned some practical strategies for bringing peace into our homes, To bring the transforming love of Christ to the churches and communities. We reflected upon world means that first of all we must be willing the phenomena of compassion burnout and the and open to this transforming love ourselves. risk of becoming desensitised to suffering Becoming an active member of the Third Order through media saturation. Then we started to of St. Francis is one way of gaining support, feel really challenged as we thought about the encouragement and a spiritual practice to ways in which we are personally responsible enable that transformation. for discord and carelessness within our own If you are interested in finding out more about lives and relationships. Bishop Keith presented the Third Order of the Society of St. Francis us with some practical ways to counter these and how it might help your journey of faith negative tendencies; please visit our webpage www.tssf.org.au and go to the contacts page. 2 New First Order Novice eventually caused Anthony to become a Franciscan. Congratulations to Brother Wade-Matthew who was clothed as a novice in the Society of Anthony wanted to go to Muslim countries to St Francis on Friday 15 th June 2007. spread the word but he became ill on the way. Brother Wade will continue his noviciate at the In 1221 there was a gathering of some 3000 Hermitage at Stroud. Franciscans in Assisi. St Francis was at that gathering but he was so Elections for Regional Ministers ill that he could not speak. He asked that We welcome the new Regional Ministers someone else speak but when no one elected in the recent voting: volunteered the new foreign friar, Anthony, was prevailed on. Elaine Jeston (Queensland A) It was then that the Franciscans learnt of Philip Thirlwell (NSW B) Anthony’s deep Biblical knowledge and his Anne Kotze (SA) great power to captivate an audience of 3000 friars, Jeremy James (WA) Hereafter, wherever he went throughout Gerald Ng (Malaysia) Europe spreading the Gospel and the good Anselm Rupusina (Dogura, PNG) works of the Franciscans he drew large crowds. Regional Ministers have the overall pastoral His words he lived out, he said words like responsibility for Tertiaries in their Region. “A preacher must by word and example be a They also assist enquirers as they share their SUN to those to whom he preaches, you are story and draw up their Rule of Life prior to says the Lord, the light of the world. Our light being received as a Novice. must warm the hearts of the people.” Homily for the Feast Day of St In 1231 after a series of sermons in Lent Anthony of Padua and St Alban Anthony fell ill. He was nursed by the Poor Clares. In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit – In nomine Patris, Filii et Spiritus He died, reportedly like Francis, singing his Sanctus – AMEN. final song a hymn to Mary. St Anthony of Padua, as we all know, was a Anthony was so popular that he was made a very well renowned and knowledgeable saint within one year of his death. biblical scholar who died at a young age. When his remains were moved in 1263 to a He was a contemporary of our blessed Saint special basilica, built in his honour, his tongue Francis.
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