Friday, June 26, 2015

The Minister and his responsibility towards the second Order: Leonardo Gonszalez



He presented the scope of the presentation as forming and informing the ministers regarding their responsibility towards the second order.

Clares defines herself as an disciple of Francis and it was her will to be belong clearly to the movement of the friars Minor. This we see in her rile and testament, where she declares Francis founder, revealer of the charism and sets out her form of life in parallel with the life of the friars with differences adapted for the option of contemplative life. 

The coming of Clare and her sisters and the configuration of a feminine face in the primitive franciscan community, it was a great challenge and pushed Francis to rethink the whole plan of life, seeking in a deeper and more essential way, relativizing what could be adapted. The relationship with clare enriched the friars and helped them to clarify the fundamental points of the charism.
Form of Life: the form of life of clare and her sisters considered the oldest writing of francis which is preserved in its original form, does not give norms but sets out as fundamental the relationships of the sisters: with God the father as daughters and slaves; with the holy spirit as spouses; with Jesus christ in following the Gospel and with the friars without submission or dependence, since the friars committed themselves to accompany with solicitude and as they did for the friars themselves.


the renunciation of the means of security and of economic stability constituted the best guarantee of a way of minority relationships and of contemplation in minority.
clare and the poor sisters made the first global rereading of the charism, uniting the ideal of the friars minor with the new forms of religious life of urban women communities and taking on also traditional monastic elements and in a special way of spousal mysticism. 

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