Franciscan Leadership:

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Franciscan Leadership

• Mutual Love Generating a Future

Franciscan Federation Annual Conference 2009
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Who are the living leaders?
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Franciscan Leadership
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Leadership Qualities

• Profound experience of passion (love for life)
• Vision of the future
• Successfully communicate the vision
• Motivate and inspire others
• Assist others to achieve it

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Leaders
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Francis ultimate leader ultimate
follower. . . of Jesus

• Entire life rooted
• in baptismal commitment
• Disciple follower of Jesus
• Apostle sent forth as leader

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Francis The Ultimate Leader

• Passion and love for ALL life
• Vision Rebuild the Church
• Communicated this visionliving the gospel
  message
• Servant and prophetic leader
• Great solicitude for those who journeyed with him
  

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Clare -- Living Leadership

• Examples of virtue and holiness
• Inspiring others
• Farsighted and discerning
• Open and solicitous

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Hallmarks of Franciscan leadership

• Gospel centered
• Rooted in who one is
• Springs from littleness
• Familial
• Continuous Conversion

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Franciscan Leadership Gospel
Centered

• Rooted in the power and authority of Jesus
• Based on mutual love and obedience with his
  Father-God
• Only Law was Love.
• Francis' passion for life emanated
  from the gospel

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Franciscan Leadership Rooted in
Being

• Based on who one is not what one does
• Gospel of John
• Ordinary things--"I AM" Statements
• Live to glorify God
• Who we are in relationship with God

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Franciscan Leadership Springs from
Littleness

• Incarnational
• Margins of society
• alternative model
• To live humbly wherever we are

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Franciscan Leadership
Familial

• Servant
• subject to every human creature
• Spouses, Sisters, Brothers, Mothers
• Prophetic relational stance

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Franciscan Leadership Continuous
Conversion

• Deepening faith,
  broadening vision
• "Rebuild my Church" evolves
• Wolf of Gubbio

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Franciscan Leadership Who are we to
BE

• Call of the Second Vatican Council
• Franciscan Networking
• On-going influence
• Reviving the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition

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Franciscan Leadership
Religious life today

• Sharing the vision today
• Moving Beyond
• Visitation

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Franciscan Leadership Franciscan Federation

• New Model
• Franciscan tradition inclusive
• Evangelical Leadership

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Franciscan Leadership Implementation Task Force

• People, hungry for the spirit of Francis and
  Clare, are searching for ways to immerse
  themselves in and express the Franciscan values
  of evangelical conversion of life, prayer,
  poverty and humility. Our reconfiguration as an
  organization is to enable us to engage with each
  other and our associates and co-workers in new
  ways to live those values in our world today.

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Franciscan Leadership Franciscan Intellectual
Tradition

• Franciscan model
• in dialogue
• with other models.

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If not US---Who? If not
NOW---When?