Required Resources

- Spiritual Assistance

Required Resources for the SA Class
All resources below can be electronic or borrowed except for the * resources.

Bible

*Franciscan Family Connections (2011)

Francis and Clare: The Complete Works translation and introduction by Regis Armstrong, OFM Cap. and Ignatius Brady, OFM. (1982)

*Essential Documents of the Secular Franciscan Order (2014) or individual copies of:
1. OFS Rule (1978)
2. OFS International Ritual (1984)
3. OFS General Constitutions (2000)
NOTE – CIOFS, the International OFS fraternity, on January 13, 2021, issued new translations for the Rule, the Ritual and the General Constitutions. The content was not changed but translations redone from the original languages. This fact may affect the editions of some of these resources.

See – Revised translations of official documents – Ordo Franciscanus Saecularis (ciofs.info)
1. OFS (brown) Ritual (1985) by Fr. Benet Fonck, OFM
2. Statutes of the International Fraternity of the Secular Franciscan Order (2008)
3. Statutes for Spiritual and Pastoral Assistance to the Secular Franciscan Order (2009)
OFS Queen of Peace Regional Guidelines (2020)

*Handbook for Spiritual Assistance to the Secular Franciscan Order (3rd Ed. 2012)

For Up to Now: Foundational Topics for Initial Formation (FUN Manual 2011)

Vatican II documents, especially:
            Decree on Lay Spirituality
            Dogmatic Constitution on the Church
            Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World

Paths to Renewal: The Spirituality of Six Religious Founders by Zachary Grant, OFM Cap. (1998)

Optional:
Greyfriars Review: Francis of Assisi and the Laity of His Time by Prospero Rivi, OFM Cap. (2001-vol.15)
The Francis Prayer Book by Jon Sweeney (2004)
St. Francis and the Third Order by Raffaele Pazzelli (1989) Chapter 7. The Conversion of Francis, pgs. 80-86
Vatican II in Plain English/The Constitutions by Bill Huebsch (1997)