Franciscans

He's not a judge.

He was 68, a Franciscan friar for Ramon...

No, not that kind of friar.

A Franciscan friar for 47 years, a priest for 40, and chaplain to the New York City Fire Department since 1992.

Remember, this is 2001, so he's been there a little less than 10 years Born in Brooklyn to Irish immigrants out of, uh, out of the countryside.

His father died when he was six years old.

It might help somebody.

During the AIDS crisis, when hospital staff wouldn't touch those with AIDS, Mychal Judge walked in and put his hands on them and anointed them.

they have not been ashamed to glory in that which Paul so execrates, that he is unable to express his detestation too strongly.

Unless indeed we suppose that Christ was not divided by the Corinthians, when one teacher set himself above another, 1 Cor 1.12.13.3.4, and that now no injury is done to Christ, when, instead of Christians, we hear some called Benedictines, others Franciscans, others Dominicans, and so called, that while they affect to be distinguished from the common body of christians they proudly substitute these names for a religious profession section fifteen the charge is against the profession not every monk the differences which i have hitherto pointed out between the ancient monks and those of our age are not in manners but in profession Hence let my readers remember that I have spoken of monachism, monachatus, rather than of monks, and marked not the vices which cleave to a few, but vices which are inseparable from the very mode of life.

In regard to manners, of what use is it to particularize and show how great the difference? This much is certain, that there is no order of men more polluted by all kinds of vicious turpitude, nowhere do faction, hatred, party spirit, and intrigue more prevail.

In a few monasteries, indeed, they live chastely, if we are to call it chastity, where lust is so far repressed as not to be openly infamous.

The kingdom of the spirit was to be a complete triumph of the spirit, the spiritualis intelligentsiae called it, over the dead letter.

He had many followers among the more extreme Franciscans, and these were accused of possessing a secret book of his called Liber Inducens in Evangelium Aeternum.

Again and again groups of visionaries were accused of possessing this terrible book.

in which the freedom of the Renaissance lay hidden, until at last Pope Alexander IV had it found and cast into the flames.

That's what Paul means.

Or the original name of the Franciscans is the Ordo Fratrum Minorum.

That's the Latin.

Ordo Fratrum Minorum.

The truth is, here hog shearing is much in its glory, and our disputing in Oxford comes as far short of it as the rhetoric of Carfax does that of Billingsgate.

At a dinner described with a good deal of humor with the Franciscan friars, he was still pursued by his Oxford recollections.

The prior was a good plump fellow that had more belly than brains, and methought was very fit to be reverenced, and not much unlike some head of a college.

One circumstance Locke noticed much to the advantage of the foreigners, namely their good-natured toleration for each other's opinions.

Many of these communities were founded in the Middle Ages and are still thriving.

You've no doubt heard of some of the more prominent religious orders, like the Franciscans, the Dominicans, the Jesuits, and the Carmelites.

One of the earliest of these communities, the Benedictines, was founded in the early 6th century by a young man named Benedict, who is now known and revered as Saint Benedict, and who truly merits the epithet, Larger Than Life.

As a well-born Roman teenager, he gave up his law school education, his father's house, and his inheritance to live in a cave, and became the greatest figure in the early growth and development of Christian monasticism.

Francis was a man of prayer, spending long hours in contemplation, often in hidden grottos and remote hillsides, yet his life overflowed in action for the gospel.

He founded the Order of Friars Minor, now known as the Franciscans, that continues to spread the joy of the gospel to this day.

With radical faith, he met lepers, embraced outcasts, preached to birds, and famously traveled to the Holy Land, bravely seeking peace with the Sultan.

Perhaps nowhere is his sanctity more manifest than when he received the stigmata, the sacred wounds of Christ, in his own flesh, a silent testimony to his intimate union with Jesus crucified.

And he is a named professor of history and religious studies at Yale.

So he talks about Teresa of Avila and even more amazing, a Franciscan friar named Joseph.

So tell us about Teresa and Joseph and what he is entirely convinced they actually did.

Well, so Carlos is careful.

The sight of the holy places filled his soul with joy, and the most ardent sentiments of devotion and compunction, and he desired to stay there to labor in the conversion of the Mohammedans.

The provincial of the Franciscans, by virtue of his authority from the Holy See over the pilgrims, commanded him to leave Palestine.

Ignatius obeyed, but slipped privately back to satisfy his devotion again in visiting twice more the print of our Savior's feet on Mount Olivet.

He returned to Europe in winter, in extreme cold weather, poorly clad, and came to Venice at the end of January, in 1524, from whence he continued his journey by Genoa to Barcelona.