Renewal in a Franciscan Key 11/4

2021 Franciscan Zoom Lecture #15: Dr. Garrett Galvin, OFM

Renewal in a Franciscan Key

Thursday, November 4th, 2021, at 7:00 pm PDT

Renewal is a particularly important theme, and we all need renewal after the seemingly endless COVID and its variants. After St. Francis’ conversion, he repaired and restored an ancient church. He renewed it. While most scholars focus on different themes in the Psalms, renewal emerges as a consistent theme within them. The Psalms help us consider renewal on a personal and societal level, something we can also see in the life of St. Francis. As we seek renewal, we will see the Psalms pushing us toward nature/creation and the Holy Spirit, two dominant motifs in the life of St. Francis.