Reflection 06 (12:43): Kissing the Leper
- Feb 19
- 1 min read
Updated: Apr 1
The journey of Saint Francis of Assisi invites us into a profound meditation on change, faith, and the search for meaning beyond worldly success. Gerard Thomas Straub’s film, The Loneliness and Longing of St. Francis of Assisi, captures this spiritual odyssey with a quiet intensity that resonates deeply. This series breaks the full length film into clips that are conducive to pausing, watching, and pondering. (Click here for questions in PDF format for small group handouts.)
Reflection Questions on Quotes from the Film:
"The only way for me to chase away the hopelessness is to spend time in prayer every day. Prayer is a lifeline to hope and a pilgrimage can be a lifeline to prayer.”
How do you define prayer? What is your favorite practice of prayer?
"Thomas Merton said it best: 'We all exist solely for this: to be the human place God has chosen for his presence, his manifestation, his epiphany.'"
How would your day be enhanced if you woke up in the morning and prayed, "Today I will choose to reveal God to others intentionally?" What could you do to manifest God's presence?
"More and more, he saw the image of Christ in the poor and the afflicted. It was as though, in looking at the leper, Francis saw the broken and bleeding body of Christ, his brother, Francis would never again be able to treat another human being, no matter how lowly or disfigured, with indifference or contempt."
How would current events be different if more of our citizenry could see Christ in the poor and the afflicted?
