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 "Let us begin, brothers, to serve the Lord God, for up to now we have done little or nothing"(FF 500)

In that love which is God all the brothers and sisters, whether they are engaged in prayer, or in announcing the word of God, or in serving, or in doing manual labor, should strive to be humble in everything. They should not seek glory, or be self-satisfied, or interiorly proud because of a good work or word God does or speaks in or through them. Rather in every place and circumstance, let them acknowledge that all good belongs to the most high Lord and Ruler of all things. Let them always give thanks to Him from Whom we receive all good.(Rule and Life 31)

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We are in the Jubilee Year,

shall we read the Franciscan Sources?

clik, to read or listen

Exclusive property of God

Created to praise God and already destined to be a priestly people through Baptism, we, in making our religious profession, further become the exclusive property of God. Consequently, divine worship is our first and foremost activity. In this way, we more intimately enter into the hymn of praise which creation raises to the Father in his Son Jesus (C.9)

Let the brothers and sisters keep in mind how great a dignity the Lord God has given them "because He created them and formed them in the image of His beloved Son according to the flesh and in His own likeness according to the Spirit" (Col 1:16). Since they are created through Christ and in Christ, they have chosen this form of life which is founded on the words and deeds of our Redeemer. (Rule and Life 9).

Eucharistic life

Following the example of our Seraphic Father, St. Francis, who “burned with love that came from his whole being for the Sacrament of the Body of Christ”, we prolong the close communion with Christ realized during the Eucharistic Celebration, by setting apart intervals of time during the day for adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament, so that we might continue our act of thanksgiving, draw the means for increasing our faith, hope and charity and make intercession for all humanity. In the celebration and adoration of the Eucharist we find “the strength radically to follow Christ, who was obedient, poor and chaste (C.9.3)

Meditation

To nourish our spiritual life we devote at least one hour each day to mental prayer, at established times, meditating above all on the “humility of the Incarnation and the charity of the Passion” which St. Francis “had impressed so deeply in his memory, that he found difficulty thinking of anything else”.
Each day we communally share in moments of listening to the Word of God. In fact, these times are a primary source and nourishment for our relationship with the living God. We commit ourselves to embracing and guarding these occasions in our heart, following the example of St. Francis, “who was entrusting all that he heard to his laudable memory, he diligently sought to practise it to the letter

In the spirit of holy prayer
and devotion

So that “all our life might be permeated with the apostolic spirit and all our actions in the apostolate animated by a religious spirit”, we are attentive that our activity be ordered in such a way as to not stifle in us “the spirit of holy prayer and devotion, which should be served by all temporal things”.
Recalling that our Seraphic Father, “sought out a place of solitude and silence where he would be able to hear God’s secret revelations”, we foster silence as an effective means of intimate, prolonged contact with the Lord. Silence is also a demand of fraternal charity and a source of mortification

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