Franciscan Mission Associates (FMA), now in its 47th year of service to the missions of the world, is a spiritually based organization with worldwide mission-helping undertakings. It promotes information about and interest in the missionaries and their people - particularly in the Franciscan Missions of Central America, but also in the inner cities of the United States and Canada as well as every continent in the world.

Saint Francis of Assisi
Feast Day - October 4

Throughout the world, East to West, in nearly all cultures, St. Francis of Assisi is likely the best known and most beloved of all the saints.

Born in 1182 to a merchant family of Assisi and a life of ease, (John) Francis Bernadone, he died at just 45 years of age in 1226. By then, he was a poor man by choice, dying with just a simple religious habit in worldly goods - but bequeathing a heritage of love that only God could properly value, a heritage that people of every age share anew and in new ways.

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Prayer

Father, you helped St. Francis reflect the image of Christ through a life of poverty and humility.

After the manner of Francis of Assisi, may we follow your Son, Jesus through grateful appreciation of His Birth at Bethlehem, frequent reception of His body in Eucharist and daily meditation of His Passion and Death on the Cross of Calvary

Amen.

Saint Francis of Assisi Feast Day - October 4

Prayer

Saint Francis of Assisi
Feast Day - October 4