To Live and Follow

To Live and Follow

Letter of the Franciscan Ministers General on the 800th Anniversary of the Earlier Rule (28 September 2020).

“To all the Friars of the First Order on the happy occasion of the eight hundredth anniversary of the Earlier Rule; we Ministers General send this letter:

To remember with gratitude;

To renew, with passion, our following of the Lord Jesus, as Friars Minor, in the form of life of Brother Francis, for the Church and the world;

In praise of God who is “every good, the true and supreme good”  (Earlier Rule 23, 9).”

Download the letter here.