In recent years, a form of Franciscan discernment has been developed, calling the followers of St. Francis to be “contemplative fraternities in mission.”
As consumers we are often not assisting to a general trend towards the adoption of sustainable behaviours where waste is seen as a resource rather than rubbish.
The book explores the manuscripts written, read, and studied by Franciscan friars from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries in Northern Italy, and specifically Padua.
This conference on the powers of the soul in medieval (Franciscan) thought is part of the ERC Project, ‘Authority and Innovation in Early Franciscan Thought.’
Some people are easily labeled. Their lives seem to be carefully organized and predictable. Robert Lax is not one of them.