Tomorrow is the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals and the ecology, a Roman Catholic saint who took the gospel literally by following all Jesus said and did. He is a saint every Christi Regian ought to know.
In Calbayog, (following tradition) the Franciscan community of Christ the King College will gather at 8:00 a.m. tomorrow at the Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral for a Eucharistic Celebration.
The traditional blessing of the pets will follow at the CKC Chapel.
Let me share something which I got from www.americancatholic.org:
Francis of Assisi was a poor little man who astounded and inspired the Church by taking the gospel literally—not in a narrow fundamentalist sense, but by actually following all that Jesus said and did, joyfully, without limit and without a mite of self-importance.
Serious illness brought the young Francis to see the emptiness of his frolicking life as leader of Assisi's youth. Prayer—lengthy and difficult—led him to a self-emptying like that of Christ, climaxed by embracing a leper he met on the road. It symbolized his complete obedience to what he had heard in prayer: "Francis! Everything you have loved and desired in the flesh it is your duty to despise and hate, if you wish to know my will. And when you have begun this, all that now seems sweet and lovely to you will become intolerable and bitter, but all that you used to avoid will turn itself to great sweetness and exceeding joy."
From the cross in the neglected field-chapel of San Damiano, Christ told him, "Francis, go out and build up my house, for it is nearly falling down." Francis became the totally poor and humble workman.
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