Day by Day with Saint Francis: 365 Meditations

The infectious love of God that made Saint Francis into “God’s jester” leaps out from every page of this book. It entices the reader to change profoundly. Looking at Francis who lived in poverty and was utterly in love with Jesus Christ, Christian believers, followers of other religions and even those who declare they have no faith find they have something in common with him, something that stirs their sympathy. Passages taken from Saint Francis’s own writings and from the writings of others about him outline his spirit and make it possible to meet the saint as if he were standing next to you. His life, which re-founded a whole civilization, can do the same to anyone who meets him. After eight hundred years there is profound similarity between the people of Francis’s time and the people we meet along our streets: they have a hunger for something ‘more’—an unease in the heart that the emptiness of pleasure cannot fill. These 365 days of meditations sing Francis’s example that living the Gospel in poverty of spirit is the most wonderful and the simplest adventure a person can embark upon in order to be happy.