Siblings

The man was tired, suffering from a very painful eye disease. By dint of deprivation, François d’Assise felt his forces decline. It is in this last stage of this too short life, marked by a radical counting, that man composed and sung what has become one of the founding texts of the modern Italian language. THE Cantics of creatures This year celebrates its eight hundredth anniversary. Opportunity to rediscover this founding writing, too, of Christian ecology since it reminds us of how we should contemplate the world and the creatures that surround us.

A fraternal look placed on the cosmos and all the living. François is not just lyrical poetry by singing his “sun brother” and his “sister moon”. He expresses a deep conviction, contained for a long time in the biblical revelation: it is indeed the whole world which celebrates, by its very existence, the great mystery of the Creator, which gives it life constantly.

For the Poverello, each of the creatures also evokes different faces of Christ. The peaceful wolf, the singing birds, the earthworm exposed on the way: François sees the gospel of the resurrection of Christ at work. We have all the summer to come – and all the rest of our life – to get back to the school of this essential intuition. In brothers and sisters.