#st francis of assisi

[tomicscomics]

12/02/2024

What classes do YOU think they should pick (NOT CLERIC)?

The saints' RPG adventure continues every Monday and Friday through December!

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JOKE-OGRAPHY: In most fantasy RPGs, a "class" is your fantasy archetype. Barbarians rage and attack with melee weapons, wizards cast spells from afar, rogues sneak around and backstab, etc. In these games, a cleric is a holy magic-user. They worship a god, and they cast blessings and miracles in the name of that god. Of course, that makes it the perfect class for a saint, and since this series is about a group of saints playing together, of course they all try to pick it. However, these games are usually more fun if everyone picks a different class so the party has lots of different powers, so when the angel running the game catches on, he tells everyone to pick something besides cleric.

[julesofnature]

"Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take nothing that you have received...but only what you have given; a full heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice, and courage.” ~ Francis of Assisi 

[inspiredbyjesuslove]

[the-mercy-workers]

Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him.

St. Francis of Assisi

[ranminfan]

What to do when a wolf has been terrorizing a town you're visiting? Befriend it. 😇 🐺

St. Francis and the Wolf of Gubbio, where Francis tamed the creature to stop disrupting the villagers, in exchange to be provided with food.

Another story how this man is the patron saint of animals

[all-yourn]

[lalarose216]

MY FELLOW FANSIES LISTEN UP.

Today is the feast of Saint Francis of Assisi.

I learned today he’s the patron saint of Santa Fe AND IT’S EVEN NAMED AFTER HIM LOOK.

AND IN 92SIES DO YOU REMEMBER JACK KELLY’S REAL NAME WAS FRANCIS?!?!!?

HE’S LITERALLY NAMED AFTER HIS DREAM CITY!!!!!!

[thebestcomicbookpanels]

Marie Severin's cover rough for Marvel's St. Francis comic book

[ohholydyke]

I just learned via a devotional given out by my parish that St Francis sometimes referred to his body as “Brother Ass” because he saw his body as a gift and essentially good but he also knew it was stubborn as a mule and refused to cooperate with him and I need everyone to know this immediately

[anastpaul]

(via Saint of the Day – 17 September – The Feast of The Stigmata of St Francis of Assisi – AnaStpaul)

[odlnus]

St. Francis of Assisi

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[tomicscomics]

12/09/2024

(C_C;)

The saints' RPG adventure continues every Monday and Friday through December!

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JOKE-OGRAPHY: 1. Continuing from the last few cartoons, an angel is running a fantasy RPG for some saints in heaven, namely Sts. Thomas Aquinas, Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, and Nicholas of Myra. If you haven't seen the previous parts yet, go get caught up, lest I be caught up in rage. 2. Before they start playing, the angel asks his players if they have any fears or topics they'd like the story to avoid. This is one of they many questions game-masters might ask an unfamiliar group, giving the table a chance to discuss the overall tone they'd prefer. 3. However, for saints, this question is silly. Since they're in heaven, they're maximally peaceful and fulfilled. Thus, they feel no fear. However, because I am a jokey jokester who is liking to be telling the jokes, and because the whole premise of this RPG story arc is absurd on its face, I can't leave things at that. Instead, Joan pipes up and declares that she doesn't want burning alive to be part of the upcoming story, since it's how she was killed by her enemies on earth. 4. Joan is technically not an official martyr, having been sentenced for her private revelations and not for her faith in Christ. However, that’s not very hashtag Sigma, so I called her a martyr in this cartoon. If they have to revoke my Catholic cartoonist license for this, so be it. 5. After Joan says she doesn't want burning alive to be part of the game, the angel looks down at the monster he prepared for the end of the story: a fire-breathing dragon with a ton of fiery attacks. To accommodate Joan, he changes the "fire" dragon to an "ice" dragon and calls it good. He can fix the attack names later.

[julesofnature]

"Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take nothing that you have received...but only what you have given; a full heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice, and courage.” ~ Francis of Assisi 

St. Francis is known for his ministry to the poor and underprivileged, his care for nature and animals, and founding the Franciscan order. Through the lessons that can be extracted from his life, St. Francis challenges each of us to be present: to be present to ourselves, to one another, and to all of creation.

[andallshallbewell]

[the-mercy-workers]

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; And where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved, as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive, It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

St. Francis of Assisi

[thurifer-at-heart]

A Prayer attributed to St. Francis.

Lord, make us instruments of your peace. Where there is hatred, let us sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, union; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that we may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

—The Book of Common Prayer (1979), p. 833