Father Casey if Franciscans hadn’t adapted to society we wouldn’t be listening to you right now. I think that would be a loss. I struggle with my faith sometimes. Being able to listen to your lectures is so helpful. Perhaps it is the virtues that Francis cultivated that must be the common thread through the centuries. Humility and kindness. Authenticity, compassion, empathy.

I absolutely loved your comment on the irony of traditionalism and modernism having the same flaw. Very wise observation!

I went to a Franciscan school here in Australia and was raised by Franciscan Priests and brothers. Their wonderful spirit and unique way of spreading The Gospel has stayed with me all my life and continues to inspire. "Preach the Gospel always...Use words if you have to." Saint Francis of Assisi

I just want to say I owe you an apology. I made a negative comment on the first video of yours I saw simply bc I disagreed with one small part. After watching MANY more of your videos.. I believe you are doing something not only incredible but extremely important work. You are putting a good positive message / face on the catholic church. I do not agree with all of your beliefs but I have an incredible amount of respect for you and what you are doing here.

Hello there! There is still a Franciscan community, founded in Italy, called Frati Minori Rinnovati They have a few communities spread around the world, such as in Africa and Colombia. Some of them still walk barefoot and, all of them do not receive money. You can take food to them, and additionally, all food is shared with the poor, sometimes not even too much left for them. Some of his founders, who are still alive, met Padre Pio when they joined their vocation. They depend on people generosity when it comes to medical assistance or other necessities. They are called "rinnovati" which means renewed, bringing back alive the origins of the Franciscan community.

“Every day is a chance for renewal”. Nothing could be more Franciscan! I’d love to see you have a conversation with some Franciscan women (2nd and 3rd order) to discuss the feminine expression of Franciscan life.

St. Frances was one of those very godly men. His early life was quite decadent, his change in Christ was profound. A hard act to follow.

I might not have left the Franciscans had I listened to this reflection before I departed a community that I thought was just too wealthy to be truly Franciscan. I was wrong.

I just want to take a moment to thank you, I found your channel a year ago and took a deep dive into my faith. I had just lost my mother and sought comfort and meaning. I found it and it was presented to me by you in a beautiful way. I’ve now started the RCIA in my local parish and it is nourishing my soul in an amazing way. Thank you so much Father Casey, your work means more to me than I can express. Thank you 🙏 God bless you and keep you safe

Thankyou! I am a OFS. Being secular I realize I am of the world but I try to be the best Franciscan I can be. Unselfish, humble and loving. It is in trying to be the best that I can in this world.

I've said it before, I'll say it again: It would indeed be interesting to see you with a tonsure Fr. Casey😂😂. Please pray for me.

I went to Italy in 2006. When I went to the church his relics and remains are kept in Assisi, his cloaks were so simple, humble, and poor looking. I eventually went down to the what is the basement, and his remains are kept in a casket inside of a stone box that sits in the middle of a small pillar in the middle of a small room, with a single knealer in front of it. Nothing flashy. Nothing that draws attention to it. Nothing that glorifies him as a man, but honors the way he lived; humble, simple, and poor because to him the Lord came first and so did others. I ended up getting back to my hotel and broke down crying. Originally thinking I was homesick, but I think it was just how powerful seeing his resting place was, just perfect and simple. I remember kneeling there and saying a prayer to thank God I had the opportunity to be there, and to thank his son Francis for being a great saint to be a model for others. I was the only Catholic on the trip, and I would love to go back there and stay.

Franciscan friars of the renewal are hard men living radical lives at the edges of society

I had a smoke outside a hospital with a lovely young franciscian priest who joined a gang of us mostly patients and some visitors it was so Humble the way he sat down among us just like Jesus would have done back in the day I then asked him for a Confession he said sure no problem it was so lovely what he said to me maybe your just lonely he was bang on I love the Franciscian Order

I never knew that story about St. Frances tearing down the house. Maybe you could make a video just about the life of St. Francis one day? I would love to hear more about him.

I didnt get the logic here. In the beginning you clearly said st francis didnt even like the way his contemporaries acted, so why do you use the 'tradition vs modernity' argument? Also, as you already know how strict his standards were, why not just change the orders name rather than claim to still be franciscans? Honest questions and no offense meant.

Interesting history, seems like the modern OFM could use a thorough re-forming towards its roots. It might help attract vocations.

i go to a dominican university and when it's the feast day of st dominic, a franciscan priest presides over our mass and we were told that the opposite happens during the feast day of st francis. i think the same thing happened to the dominicans and franciscans in that we're so different to our founders.

Love you, Casey. No one needs to be perfect. We just need to keep Jesus and Mary in mind. Simply put - keep being a blessing. Keep God in our thoughts and actions. We are His people. We need to act like it.

The Dominicans, who started around the same time as the Franciscans, were much the same way. St. Dominic wanted the Dominicans to travel and preach the gospel and live much as the apostles, surviving off the generosity of others. But it was quickly realized that wasn’t going to work for many reasons. It’s much like you said the Dominicans and the Franciscans are not their founders. Many of their followers could only hope to try and live up to a fraction of their founders. I think many of these changes have helped both to thrive grow and bring their ministries to many more places than they might have otherwise.

My uncle is the Franciscan (OFM) Provincial in my country and he is one of the most financially comfortable men I know. To me it looks just like a secular corporate job he has, except for being celibate.

Hi, Father. I am Roman Catholic. But I have a college friend who married a Franciscan Priest. Her husband got out of the Priesthood, which according to her, not because of her but because according to him, he couldn't see the Franciscans' spirit anymore. I was saddened by that and distanced myself from them.

As usual great stuff I am glad to learn more about the Franciscans and how they can impact our faith. I love this!!!

Greetings from Poland.

Thank you so much for this! I shared this with some of my fellow Seculars!

Times are different from then to now,GOD bless you father Casey

. . . needed to hear this today . . . grateful for your talk . . .

Even St. John Bosco told St. Dominic Savio not to imitate the severe penances practiced by the Saints of the past. Not everything that the Saints and their followers did in the past must be imitated exactly by Catholics in the 21st century. The Church does allow for changes in times and circumstances, and adapts to new technology as well. All these factors will have some effect on the daily lives of Catholics.

Godbless Fr. Casey Cole! DEUS VULT! From Filipino Catholic in the Philippines

I contribute to Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration in Tonopah,AZ. The Poor Clares are the sister order to the Franciscans.

Great video Fr. Casey!

This is the greatest religious video I have watched so far during 2021.

Father Casey, what a wonderful explanation….we must glean from the past , but listen to the Holy Spirit as well.

Reject modernity. Return to monk-e.

Thank you Fr Casey for this interesting discourse.

I’ve already watched the video yesterday, but I’ll rewatch it again today anyways!

I wouldn't want our Capuchin bros over here walking barefoot when it's freezing. Some do actually walk around with sandals in the snow... At least they have the hoods and bushy beards to keep them warm.

Thank you. God bless you. 🙏

Everybody else can't be Jesus ... Nor Francis...but everybody must atleast try... Cause Jesus wants us to be perfect like him ... It's only possible through him....so keep praying.

It would have been very disheartening for St Francis to see the order he founded being changed while he is still alive. From what I’ve recalled he never forgave the friar that had initiated the change.

I live in Cincinnati went to a Franciscan high school there is still a friary in town and all the events I love to go to still! I wish I would have paid more attention and studied the order more while I had the chance. Which is why I enjoy father Casey giving me a second chance!

I don’t know Father…. One of the reasons I couldn’t join the OFM twenty years ago was that I wanted to be material poor and I could see that wasn’t going to happen. God bless you

Father, you made a small donation to the homeless. With your stipend I figured that if you could do it...so can I. We feed the hungry, help the hurting...offer Christ!

Fr., I'm wondering if you could finish answering my question yesterday about which "little t" traditions no longer apply today. You listed a bunch but didn't say which ones are no longer applicable and why. Thanks!

Watching "Tocas de Assis" from Brazil and the works they do with the homless give u a feeling of what Saint Francis might have been like years ago. Great video Father thanks!

It's interesting to me why you had to redownload this video from the other day. What happened to the comments from me and others from that previous download? Did you find them so offensive? Did the opinion of people other than Franciscans clash too much, as a former priest told me, and not go along with the party line? Just wondering.

Gosh folks... why so much hate and animosity? If you don’t like Father Casey, watch someone else.

We are still penitents serving the poor in the Franciscan spirit, living gospel to life and life to the gospel. Thank you. Our spirit has not changed..

Thank you for the words about change. Perhaps you might lift up the changes Francis allowed with the 3rd Orders and the women of Clare. Bro. Ronald Nuss-Warren, Order of Ecumenical Franciscans

change is necessary for growth in any path. but it has to be good change, unfortunately some changes are not good.

Do you think that St Francis would be the same if he was born this days?

There is a song I believe it's in Latin. In the early 90s I went to camp with Frasicans, and this song is in my head. Personally won't get the lyrics right, but I'd really like to find the name of the song. It sounds like " Maria common loposky, yes in chanta menta" if someone can translate that I would be shocked. I can sing that part, but I have no idea what the chant means or what the name of the Chant is.

Fr. Casey, Many Thanks > Great perspective as always, and very helpful for the difficult times in which we live.

So if the friars go to heaven and meet st francis.... Would he slap them😂.....btw franciscan robe quite fancy than the time of st francis

We still love and admire all you great men and women of God. The Charism is still there.

Im curious : if anyone knows the answer as i do not believe he will answer... this seems to be the second time this video has been posted.... on the last one i left a comment... did it all just get deleted and re-posted because he did not like the comments?

Wow Father Casey; I could not find the appropriate adjective. Incredibly clear lesson and admirable perspective. Wished that many today would listen to this video. I feel that under the “mystery of predilection” God has given you the light to see and ponder on these issues and you reciprocate by sharing with us. Well done!

The saint himself is honestly a madlad in Christianity

Yeah, but I still wish that the friars would go from house to house, speaking in public places, reaching people, whom nobody else would, and who would otherwise never meet living God... So that people would feel, that somebody cares about them...

Wasn't this yesterday's?

Re-upload?

Francis couldn't do what he did then in the same way today. Adapting somewhat to society and culture is just part of it, but it doesn't make it any less great. The 2000s is not the 1200s (or whenever he lived cause I forget) and that's just part of it.

But honestly most of the third prder franciscans and miraculously even the newly found orders of franciscans, followed nearly the rule, rather than the first order.

Thank you for the history and the progress the order. God bless you work

what is the name of the saint he says wanted reform? I can't catch it. St barnavich or something like it.

Father Casey , I go to mass every Sunday to a Franciscan convent in Monterrey Mexico, and they are very kind and poor, they travel a lot to the poorest parts of Mexico preaching the word of God, I invite you to visit this convent in Mexico !! Cheers

I like the realism in this video. With few exceptions, those who wax eloquent about the virtues of suffering the most tend to experience it the least in their own lives.

It's logical to adapt to the times as long as the purpose of the order remains strong spiritually. Too much materialism isn't good for the Christian life (whether religious order or secular). We have a lot more distractions nowadays than St. Francis had which I think makes it easier now to detach from God's First and Second Commands.

Amen

Well said!

This is only wordplay Casey, the fact is religious congregations only change to survive. Do not use the Holy Spirit as an excuse.

Thankfully, reformed Franciscan orders are thriving. Most notable are the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal. Soon they will be the majority branch of remaining Franciscans.

I wish you can be my spiritual director Fr Casey...

I am happy for this video. But I was wondering can we as a way of commemoration live few days like the founder?. Begging for food, do some menial work to live out side the comfort of the walls of friary. Preach by our way of living, to visit the place where the poors live, and live few days with them. have morning and evening prayers done there as a sign of witness

one advantage of the Cap. When the reforming spirt moves the Cap adjust

I hope Francisco bless me a job ✝️😇

Good morning. I like your vidéos and the day you talk Is very clear. I used to love franciscans, but something Is changed in the last two Years. I live in the city of Saint Antony and in his church there are franciscans. Now, xhen i enter in that churc i feel colder and anwelcome. Two difficultà Years, for sure. But if seems liké nos de Can sera what us really remeined if franciscans: merely an organisation. No more warm, no more welcome, as less meeting with people as possible, stricth respect for timing, and so on. Today you can hardly find a franciscan to talk with, 'cause they all are so busy.... I feel they are very far from others, there's no more hearthworming or encouraging.... As i said before franciscanism has become an organisation. I perfecly agree with you when you say a rennovation IS needed. Sorry for my imperfect english. I'm note used on writing. I promise l'll study

probably not relevant to the video but isn't the man on the mountain picture in the background looks like a Minecraft painting?

There is not one righteous, no not one. For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

Fr Casey, thank you for this video. This answers several questions for me. Please keep up the good work and the good videos.

As a Secular Franciscan myself that has the world as it's cloister..it would be a shame if nothing changed since Francis day heck we seculars would probably still be wearing habits..Lol.

Would love to hear your views on where things are right and where they have gone astray. Fantastic exposition on the issues surrounding traditional vs. hearing from God.

Us Lithuanians in Toronto have a Franciscan church!

The censure and finally the excommunication of the Fraticelli in 1296 probably ought to figure into the discussion. There was a broad continuum among the Franciscans at the time, from standard OFM to the loudest of the Spirituals bent on declaring the institutional church scandalous and hypocritical. It seems to me the Fraticelli were singled out due to the threat they posed to the *political* power of the church. The greater effect, whether intended or not, was to force "middle of the road" Franciscans to adopt more acceptable (comfortable) lifestyles. The voice of the poor was removed forever, and the legacy of St. Francis became a hollow symbol. Suppression of alternative voices continues to this day. Study the actions of my friend, Fr. Jerry Zawada, OFM, may he rest in peace. In what way did any of his activities truly offend the core principles of Christianity? In what way did anything he did violate the expectations of our Holy Father Francis? How did his actions significantly go beyond those of fellow activists, such as Fr. Daniel Berrigan? I find in Jerry's life no offensive acts, and yet he was persecuted by his own province and eventually forbidden to publicly celebrate the Mass. Tow the line, watch your step...donning the brown habit means adhering to the narrow path set out by the institutional church, in many cases suppressing the possibilities of Pure and Perfect Joy. PM

Cardinal HUGE CONTI better known as cardinal Hugolino warned Father Fancis your rule is to austere and those who come after you may not be as strong of spirit or mind to follow the rule. I think every Order has gone through changes Let us pray for the Holy Spirit to enlighten us as iam a Lay Dominican and truly understand the world is different today then is was in the time of fathers Dominic and Fancis God bless us all.🙏

Father I am so pleased to see you dressed like that to me it means y u take it seriously.

Francis😂 it's Stanley! Love you

The Franciscan Richard Rohr "Cosmic Christ" popularizes a second theology of "a-one-ment" versus "atonement". Richard Rohr is currently the most popular Franciscan author. Why did a Jesuit priest take the name "Francis"?

I consider myself a Franciscan Catholic despite making money and living quite differently than the rule of poverty because there was far more about St Francis than just that aspect. I admit it's different for the layperson than the clergy but I would never expect the clergy to live static standards of an outward thing.

Hilarious thumbnail! Love it

I like thiss video

To me, Francis would’ve been what the rich man who questioned Jesus about “What good thing must I do to get to heaven.” I think Francis was the one who took Jesus advice. Matthew 19:21 “Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

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Say this yesterday?

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Did St Francis have the stigmata?.

Just passing by... ⛵...

Amen🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Some churches in Sydney, Oz are run by Franciscans.

Except, we have not actually changed that much.