
Francis began at that time and deepened when I learned there was an Order of Lutheran Franciscans devoted to living the spirit of St. Francis” but not unusual for a Lutheran College where St. One might call it a “common prayer,” but that day in chapel in memory for a classmate dead in Vietnam, the chanting reverberated and those of us who needed to be consoled were consoled uncommonly. It was either 1967 or 1968 when the college choir, all 400-plus souls, and what was called a “Festival of Remembrance,” gave a chant-like version of “Make Me A Channel Of Your Peace”:Īnd it’s in pardoning that we are pardoned I remember from my undergraduate years time in Christ Chapel, a lovely place with wedding ceremonies, Sunday liturgical worship, chapel services, concerts, a funeral now and again. “Brother Moon and Sister Sun”: A Personal Note How, though, to treat their differences, especially since the books are unalike in length and fervency?

Francis: one by the protean English critic and one by an equally protean Greek.
