San Francisco de Asís and his vision of the image of God
Introduction
The presence of God in the life of Saint Francis of AssisThere is the presence of God, that living and motivating presence that invites to know God through the beatitudes that occur in the Gospel, and reach the brother.
However, as we have mentioned, it is intended to talk about the God of Francisco through his testimony and that personal encounter, we know that together with this the various writings of San Francisco are an unconditional support to be able to verify, as was the presence of thatGod that I love San Francisco and San Francisco, loved both his God.
Developing.
Building a Franciscan spirituality over time, has not been an easy task, since it has been transforming over time and together with events, which have marked everyone. A Franciscan spirituality fills and wrapped in values that despite the various circumstances has maintained its essence, in then when the dynamism of the spirit of the Lord appears that causes the openness to his grace and the structuring of one’s life according to the image of the image ofGod who is present.
With these elements San Francisco came to originally crystallized a Christian way of existence within the Church was because it also experienced God in an original way, triggering a series of attitudes and ways of living the gospel that served as a clarifying stimulus for many believers toThe time to seriously consider your faith.
This importance that God possesses in spirituality then refers to a deep personal experience that Saint Francis projects through his life and that comes to his brothers in a clear and vivifier way, that is, to recover the importance that God hadIn Francisco’s life, a simple description of concepts taken from his writings is not enough, but a rereading is necessary that returns the meanings that were evident for him and that for us, given the transformations of society, they have lost their transparency.
Difficulties to reach the God of Francisco
Without a doubt, the walk of San Francisco de Asís is very difficult to understand and accept from a merely human point of view, since it not only houses obedience to the Church and the sincere desire to follow the teacher’s footprints;but also the personal encounter he had with the Lord in his life.
Through his life and the various manifestos, letters and admonitions he has left us, we can realize that he has a certain distrust of the brother who was not able to testify to his life according to what he professed, if it was notAble to retain inside the favors given by God and then manifest it outside, they would not be very useful for the construction of the Kingdom of God. According to San Francisco de Asís, such a gesture would be useless, because it would neither serve for him nor for those who listened to him, since only the Most High corresponds to express the goods he sows in men in men.
Therefore, to approach the meanings that hide those attributes of God that appear in their writings and that constitute the only written expression of their experience -with the added difficulty that he used to use secretaries -there is no other way than trying to rebuild thesociocultural and religious that allowed him to make that image of God and not another, since all mystical experience, at least among Westerners, is conditioned by God’s image, so that one gives his heart to the imagined God.
The God imagined by Francisco
When we treat the God of San Francisco, we have to keep in mind that it does not refer to a completely imaginary being and that it only exists in the saint’s mind, on the contrary it is a totally attainable being, but that various situations and difficulties are requiredto get to him. However, we must not see it in an unattainable way, but in a more acceptable way to reality, which is reached through the difficulties and journeys of life.
It should be noted that Francisco even in his religious process was not yet clear about the complete image of his God, since he did not have adequate academic formation to understand it, that is why he did not know the totality of God, but it would have been another face if he had hadcontact with theology or some other science that complete their knowledge about God.
As for spiritual formation, in the beginning Francisco only received that of his family, the environment offered by the time of that time, over time it is that San Francisco will come to have that personal encounter with the same Lord and be able to express it inHis life, but as long as the road is prepared, he can’t see it so clearly.
It should be noted that, there is no data that support adequate religious formation in the childhood of the child Francisco, since there is no documentation that supports that, only literary works such as the one that Celano offers us in his writings and of which his mother, he would become one of his first foundations in religion, since it is she who cared for young Francis in her childhood, is this maternal love, that little by little and with the help of God I will mature and transform into approachTo the good God.
conclusion.
As one of the academic contributions that we can highlight in the life of San Francisco, there is the School of San Jorge which was governed by a cleric that, taking as a base text, taught to read and write Latin, in addition, as isto assume, of the foundations of faith and Christian life. This memorial learning of the Psalms was fundamental when setting the image of God in the head and in the heart of little Francisco. The job of the passion composed of Francisco is a sample of the footprint left by the school memorization of the Psalms.
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