St Francis and the Song of Brotherhood and Sisterhood

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210mm x 148mm
281pp
ISBN 9781915198068
Readership, general

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Foreshadowing Laudato si’ by forty years, this book has now become a timeless classic. Eric Doyle OFM’s plea to love and respect creation because it has its own intrinsic worth retains its urgency for Mother Earth today. Using the Canticle of Brother Sun as his point of departure he demonstrates how belief in the universal brotherhood and sisterhood of creation can help us to create a better world. In doing so he presents the Christocentric Franciscan vision of creation as a vast unity full of mystery and wonder and introduces the reader to a world comprised of a network of cosmic, personal and spiritual relationships. The vision, both attractive and challenging, demands, in Eric Doyle’s words, a ‘mighty change of heart’ from humanity. These words of wisdom can help to steer us in the direction of humility, gratitude and peace, so necessary if we are to live in harmony with creation and not destroy it.

Doyle articulates his firmly held conviction, rooted in his insightful understanding of the Franciscan tradition, that there exists among all of creation a profound relationship resulting from a common origin in God. This fundamental relatedness is an even more compelling challenge now as the global community struggles with tensions between nations and ethnic groups and the fatal repercussions of ecological abuse. This book offers an urgently needed spiritual vision of relationships as it speaks to the longings of the human heart for a more harmonious way of being together, of respecting, trusting, and loving one another.

F. Edward Coughlin OFM+

Written in 1980, this book has a timely and uncanny prescience. Deeply perturbed by the ecological crisis since the 1960s, Doyle first delivered these reflections on The Canticle of Brother Sun on the Feast of St Francis 1965. As an expression of the unity of creation in which all creatures are a brotherhood or sisterhood in Christ, Doyle is concerned here with the Canticle ‘chiefly as a cosmic hymn and what it has to teach us in respect of the ecological crisis’. He demonstrates how the authentic Christian attitude to nature is exemplified par excellence in St Francis, an attitude which respects the intrinsic worth of every ‘thing’ in the universe, and which may arguably be the only solution to saving our Sister Mother Earth.

Brenda Abbott PhD

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