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Date(s) - 10/11/2025
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
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BILL SHORT, OFM via Zoom: THE INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY OF FRANCIS AND CLARE
Date: Saturday, October 11 Time: 10:00 a.m. – Noon Central Time
Francis and Clare of Assisi pioneered a form of life based on the Gospel in the 13th century. Their community included men and women, contemplative and active, ordained and lay, married and single. Their followers came from many different cultures and spoke different languages. Yet their commitment to shape their lives on the example of Jesus and the disciples drew them all together. We will spend some time reflecting on their inspiring vision and some of the ways we can express that vision in our own day. Fee: Donation
Facilitator: Brother William (Bill) Short is a Franciscan Friar and Professor of Spirituality at the Franciscan School of Theology at the University of San Diego and director of the Collegium S. Bonaventurae in Rome. His undergraduate studies were done at the University of San Francisco, and he earned an M.A. from the Franciscan School of Theology and Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley (1976), before completing the Licentiate and Doctorate in Sacred Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome (1983).
