One thought on “Novena to Saint Francis of Assisi: Day 7”

1. Many thanks again – St Francis continues to provide much “food for thought” on how to live a genuine Christian life.

   When I was trying to discern the path of life GOD wished me to follow, after my wife’s death and my eventual recovery from the subsequent 2-year period of bereavement & depression, a fairly elderly religious brother [of the Norbertine Order] gave me much inspiration by his consistently wonderful examples of: humility; compassion; patience; chastity; meekness; temperance; brotherly love, and diligence.

   I decided in early 2022 to follow his example and to ‘live out’ these virtues as a layman and, DEO gratias, since then an amazing number of ‘opportunities’ have come my way in my ‘home’ parishes [Chelmsford, UK] and elsewhere within the Brentwood diocese and, more recently, within Westminster archdiocese – the majority of these opportunties are liturgical involvements at both Vetus Ordo and Novus Ordo Masses – I am a liturgical organist and a frequent ‘singer’ of gregorian chant.

   On this 2nd October, I pray that the Holy Guardian Angels may intercede and protect all of us in these increasingly challenging times within Holy Mother Church, and within a GOD-less “Culture of Death” secular society in which the masonic globalists currently have all the temporal power & influence……

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