Una presentazione sommaria delle varie fonti che parlano dell’Indulgenza della Porziuncola, concessa da Papa Onorio III a San Francesco nel 1216. Questa è la versione italiana di un e-book dell’autore in inglese, con il titolo “In Defence of the Portiuncula Indulgence”.

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Joseph Ratzinger published his volume, Die Geschichtstheologie des heiligen Bonaventura, in Munich in 1959. Since that year this monumental volume has been translated and republished in various languages, particularly during the years in which Cardinal Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI (2005-2013). In this volume Ratzinger makes a detailed analysis of the concept of theology of history as outlined in the context of the 13th century schools of theology, particularly in the University of Paris during the time in which Saint Bonaventure of Bagnoregio was lecturing, and especially during the final years as minister general of the Franciscan Order, when he delivered some famous Parisian lectures or conferences, especially the Collationes in Hexaëmeron, between 9 and 28 May 1273.

St Bonaventure and his vision of St. Francis and Theology of history in the teachings of pope Benedict XVI

Saint Francis of Assisi envisaged a new form of government in the Order of friars Minor. In a time when the prevailing model was the monastic and Benedictine model of the abbot or prior as father and head of the community of monks, Francis introduced the figure of the minister and servant of the fraternity, calling him by various names, such as minister, custos and guardianus.

Ad servitium et communem utilitatem fratrum

L’articolo considera le parole di san Francesco d’Assisi riguardo al ministero sacerdotale, e la sua visione dello stesso ministero come viene fuori dai gesti concreti della sua vita.

La visione sanfrancescana del sacerdozio ministeriale

THE LAST SUPPER OF SAINT FRANCIS AND THE IMAGE OF THE NEW ADAM

The object of this paper is that of seeing, first and foremost, the figure of the first man, Adam, and that of the new Adam, Christ, applied to Saint Francis, and then to understand how Francis lived the paschal mystery of Christ in the perspective of the new Adam, particularly in the revelation of Christ who offers himself to his disciples during the paschal meal.

IL GIOVEDÌ SANTO DI SAN FRANCESCO NELLA PROSPETTIVA DEL NUOVO ADAMO L’oggetto di questo studio è quello di vedere prima le figure del primo uomo Adamo, e di Cristo, nuovo Adamo, applicate a san Francesco, e poi a capire come Francesco ha vissuto il mistero pasquale di Cristo nella prospettiva del nuovo Adamo, che si rivela in Cristo che si dona ai suoi nella cena pasquale.

Francesco nuovo Adamo

Francis new Adam

One of the popular themes in the iconography of St, Francis and St. Dominic is that of presenting them in a friendly and fraternal embrace. For many centuries both Orders held a strong tradition that the two saints met on more than one occasion. This tradition was also the reason why the two Orders nurtured fraternal contacts between themselves, and celebrated together the feasts of their founders. The feeling of fraternity between the Minors and the Preachers was motivated by these traditions. Our aim is that of showing how the mediaeval Sources for the life of St. Francis describe these meetings between the two founders.

Meeting of st. Francis and st. Dominic