Franciscan
Brown-robed mendicant
Franciscan refers to the religious order founded by Saint Francis of Assisi in the early thirteenth century, or to its members.
The Franciscans emphasize poverty, humility, and service to the poor, following Francis's example of renouncing wealth.
As an adjective, Franciscan describes things relating to the order or its traditions: Franciscan spirituality, a Franciscan friar, Franciscan missions in California.
Severe lack of resources
- humilityFreedom from arrogance
- simplicityLack of complexity
- penanceSelf-mortification for wrongdoing
- prayerAddress to deity
stigmata · contemplation · devotion · joy · peace · brotherhood · sister · mendicant
Mendicant order member
- ClareWestern Irish county
- habitSettled regular tendency
- cordFlexible twisted strand
- SFONorthern California airport code
Bonaventure · Duns Scotus · novitiate · provincial · rule of life
Severe lack of resources
- chastityAbstaining from sexual activity
- obedienceCompliance with authority
- renunciationFormal surrender of claim
- asceticismSevere self-denial practice
austerity · begging · almsgiving · habit · cord · lay brother · friary · cloister
Voluntary aid for others
- compassionConcern for others' distress
- mercyCompassion toward offenders
- outreachProactive community assistance
- soup kitchenFacility feeding the poor
mission · hospitality · peacemaking · reconciliation · social justice · marginalized · pilgrimage · preaching
Aesthetic of reduction
- contentmentPeaceful satisfaction with circumstances
- modestyAbsence of vanity
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
- unadornedLacking decoration or ornament
spartan · bare · functional · naturalness · plainness · frugality · unworldliness · little
poverty
Severe lack of resources
- humilityFreedom from arrogance
- simplicityLack of complexity
- penanceSelf-mortification for wrongdoing
prayer · stigmata · contemplation · devotion · joy · peace · brotherhood · sister · mendicant · detachment
friar
Mendicant order member
SFO · Bonaventure · Duns Scotus · novitiate · provincial · rule of life
poverty
Severe lack of resources
- chastityAbstaining from sexual activity
- obedienceCompliance with authority
- renunciationFormal surrender of claim
asceticism · austerity · begging · almsgiving · habit · cord · lay brother · friary · cloister · hermitage
charity
Voluntary aid for others
- compassionConcern for others' distress
- mercyCompassion toward offenders
- outreachProactive community assistance
soup kitchen · mission · hospitality · peacemaking · reconciliation · social justice · marginalized · pilgrimage · preaching · evangelization
minimalism
Aesthetic of reduction
- contentmentPeaceful satisfaction with circumstances
- modestyAbsence of vanity
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
unadorned · spartan · bare · functional · naturalness · plainness · frugality · unworldliness · little · lesser
- ceramicspottery, porcelain, cup, bowl, plate
- monasticismabbeys, abbey, abbots, abbot, cloister
- American Catholicismarchdiocese, parish council, archdioceses, Catholic school, Catholic schools
- Catholic historypapacy, Vatican, Pope, dioceses, Catholic Church
- Catholicsparishioners, parishioner, communicant, archbishops, lapsed Catholic
- Friarsfriar, friars, friary, Dominican, Dominicans
FranciscanDominican
Preaching order member
Benedictine · Jesuit · Augustinian · Carmelite · Trappist
Franciscanmaterialist
Values physical over spiritual
acquisitive · wealthy · materialistic · avaricious · plutocratic
Franciscanworldly
Experienced in practical affairs
ruthless · domineering · exploitative · anthropocentric · militant
- San FranciscoNorthern California metropolis
- San FranciscansNorthern California city residents
- San Francisco BayNorthern California coastal inlet
- San Francisco Bay AreaNorthern California coastal metropolitan region
- San Francisco GiantsBay Area baseball franchise
- San Francisco earthquakeMajor California temblor event