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Franciscan
Spirituality
Prayer for Peace
The
Canticle of All Creatures
Pray of Total Offering
Prayer before the Crucifix
Prayer
Inspired by the Our Father
Becoming
a Franciscan Minor or Contemplation in Service
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FRANCISCAN
SPIRITUALITY
Reconciliation
of all creation
(Christ)
is the head of the body, the church;
he is the beginning, the first born from the dead,
that in everything he might be pre-eminent.
For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,
and through him to reconcile to himself all things,
whether on earth or in heaven,
making peace through the blood of his cross.
(Col. 1:18-20)
God not only
created all things in, through and for Christ, but He also reconciled
all things through Christ (through His death on the cross) after
sin entered the world. As in the first place all creation was
somehow effected by the sin of the first Adam (Gen. 3: 13-19),
so too will all creation be restored through the Second Adam (1
Cor. 15: 20-22, 45). In Jesus, humanity’s image of God which
was broken by sin is restored (1 Cor. 15:47-39). In fact all creation
– not just humanity – is caught up in the salvation
brought through Jesus Christ (Romans 8:19-23).
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