by Noel Muscat, ofm
On 7th July 2007 Pope Benedict XVI published the Apostolic Letter Motu Proprio data «Summorum Pontificum», concerning norms about the celebration of the Eucharist according to the Tridentine Rite of Pope Saint Pius V, as updated by the 1962 version of the Roman Missal, published by Blessed Pope John XXIII.
Franciscan history in its early stages shows how the Order of Friars Minor evolved, with striking rapidity, from a predominantly lay penitential movement of brothers to a well organized Order made up, for the most part, of clerics.
Era Mercoledì 14 maggio 1902 all’alba. Nell’isola di Malta si sparse come un fulmine la notizia che durante la notte era morto fra Diego Bonanno OFM, fondatore dell’Istituto San Francesco a ?amrun, un fratello laico Francescano che aveva consumato le proprie energie chiedendo l’elemosina per aiutare coloro che erano stretti nella morsa della povertà e dell’ingiustizia sociale.
The way in which Bonaventure of Bagnoregio presents the figure of Saint Francis in the Legenda Maior Sancti Francisci is strongly enigmatic.1 In a sense, Bonaventure knew very well the biographical sources of the life of Francis, particularly those by Thomas of Celano and Julian of Speyer. He also sought to meet personally with those companions of the Saint who were still alive in 1260.
The pilgrims who go to Assisi are sure to have visited a small oratory, in a narrow alleyway going down from Via del Ceppo della Catena, the street which from Piazza del Comune leads to the Basilica of Santa Chiara. This oratory is known by the name “San Francesco Piccolino”.
Paper on 800 years since St. Clare joined Francis at the Portiuncola (pdf)
FRATE EGIDIO DI ASSISI: PRIMO FRANCESCANO IN TERRA SANTA?
Read this short article in Italian to mark the seven hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the death of Brother Giles of Assisi. The author is Noel Muscat OFM, at present Director of Formation at the Custody of the Holy Land.
Franciscan Studies 