Sundays at All Hallows (October 4, 2026)
Welcome to Sundays at All Hallows. This Sunday, October 4, 2026, is the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity. It is also the feast day of Saint Francis of Assisi. Francis was a preacher, a friar, and the founder of the religious order of Friars Minor, or Lesser Brothers, also known as the Franciscans. A friar is a member of a religious group of men whose members take a vow of poverty, promising to stay poor throughout their lives, but unlike monks do not live and work in a monastery. Rather they live and work in the larger community, helping the poor in various ways. Francis also founded the Poor Clares, a similar religious order for women. Most of my own knowledge of Saint Francis comes from The Little Flowers of Saint Francis , a collection of popular tales about Saint Francis and his companions, originally written in Latin and later translated into Italian and English. As I recollect, it was one of the first books of a religious nature, which I read as a youngster. As well as...
