Admonitiones

The Admonitions gather twenty-eight brief exhortations that Saint Francis addressed to his brothers. Their date of composition is uncertain, but they may have been delivered at the chapters held at the Porziuncola.

The texts, terse yet spiritually cutting, range over many aspects of the life of faith: from the mystery of the Eucharist, to the drama of the divine hiddenness, to the wounds of sin in the will, to reflections on what constitutes an authentic obedience. To these themes is added a long series of beatitude-like sayings on humility, patience, charity, poverty of spirit and peace.