To Live as Francis Lived: A Guide For Secular Franciscans (The Path of Franciscan Spirituality)

Whether you are a professed Franciscan of many years or someone just beginning to seek a spiritual understanding of Francis and Clare of Assisi, To Live as Francis Lived will lead you to a closer life with Jesus Christ. Through a process of prayer, reflection, study texts, questions and connections to Scripture, you will be formed in the Franciscan way of life as Francis lived it in his own time.

Leonard Foley, O.F.M., was a popular retreat master and speaker on Catholic identity and Franciscan topics. He wrote the best-selling Believing in Jesus: A Popular Overview of the Catholic Faith (St. Anthony Messenger Press). Jovian Weigel, O.F.M., is chaplain to the Archbishop Leibold Home operated by the Little Sisters of the Poor in Cincinnati, Ohio. He served over thirty years as spiritual assistant of the Secular Franciscan Order of the Franciscans of St. John the Baptist Province in Cincinnati and nine years as executive secretary for the North American Federation of the Third Order of St. Francis in the United States and Canada. Patti Normile, S.F.O., has served as fraternity minister and formation director for the Secular Franciscan Order in Cincinnati and editor of the National Fraternity newsletter, TAU-USA. She serves on the Board of Franciscan Family Apostolate. She wrote Following Francis of Assisi: A Spirituality for Daily Living (St. Anthony Messenger Press).