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Tag Archives: Saint Francis

Marie-Louise von Franz, Jung, Death.

20-Dec-12

can i buy Pregabalin in spain I had the sudden conviction that I should finally more fully explore the writings of Marie-Louise von Franz, a second-generation Jungian whose writings I have been impressed by in the past.  I am in general always partial to people who have some kind of redemptive salvific Messianic purpose in their work: ‘Like all of us, […]

The Feast of St. Francis of Assisi.

04-Oct-12

Yangp'yŏng I think of Saint Francis whenever I encounter the least of the little creatures around me.  Today I found two spiders in my bathtub, who could not climb the slick sides of the tub.  Recently someone put up a picture on Facebook of a spider.  Half the comments were “gross” and the other half were […]

Saint Francis, Nature, and Poverty.

23-May-11

I have been reading Thomas of Celano’s two lives of Saint Francis, with all the complicated pleasure of advancing age.  In 1973 the Franciscan Herald Press put out a lovely edition of the early writings about Francis, Saint Francis of Assisi: Omnibus of Sources, a beautifully executed book, hardbound, with maps of Italy and Assisi, […]