St. Francis the Preacher

St. Francis of Assisi preached with his words and his life. Because of this one man’s preaching, the faith of 13th-century Europe was revived. What can we learn from him about how to preach to our day? In this third article of our Homiletic Scholar Series, “Francis and Francis: Preaching and the Sacramentality of Creation,” Dr. Karla Bellinger unpacks the brown-robed saint’s view of the created world in conversation with Pope Francis’ Ignatian view of God in all things, especially from his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si ‘. The Good News of our faith is that God of the Universe is here, with us in all that we see and smell and touch and hear and do.

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