Kimmerer
Clues
Clues
With this word, Kimmerer names not a simple "thank you" but rather a recognition of indebtedness.
What is gratitude?
Jesus used this practice to overcome social divisions and bring about reconciliation among people—such as when he invited Zacchaeus, the notorious tax collector, to share a meal with him.
What is table fellowship?
This region, referring to the countryside, is where Francis and his brothers took up residence.
What is the contado?
Francis and the brothers frequently preached this, which is a call to distance oneself from thoughts and actions that divide and rupture the bonds of relationship among creatures.
What is penance?
"Live simply so others may simply live." This maxim expresses Franciscan poverty; it also expresses Kimmerer's concept of this.
What is enoughness?
The fact that Jesus was crucified indicates that this group was involved in Jesus's death, since crucifixion was a form of punishment used primarily by that group.
What is the Roman empire?
This phrase, meaning "non-possession," is a central feature of the Franciscan charism.
What is sine proprio?
Instead a lowly view of one's own important or significance, a properly Franciscan view of this idea involves placing oneself at the sides of the lowest and most vulnerable members of society.
What is humility?
A serviceberry plant gifts me its fruit; I return the gift by weeding or watering the plant. Kimmerer calls the exchange between the plant and me this.
What is reciprocity?
This piece of canon law, issued by the Fourth Lateran Council, posed some problems to the Poor Ladies of San Damiano: it prohibited the formation of new religious communities.
What is canon 13?
This document allowed Clare's community at San Damiano to live according to absolute poverty, rather than the modified poverty Cardinal Hugolino tried to impose.
What is the Privilegium paupertatis?
The core insight of Francis's life—that all things have been brought into existence by the same God and so share bonds of kinship with one another—can be described with this phrase.
What is universal fraternity of creatures?
"Take only what you need."
"Take only that which is given."
"Never take more than half. Leave some for others."
"Share."
These and others are guidelines for this.
What is the Honorable Harvest?
A lawyer asks, Who is my this?, and in response Jesus tells a story about a Samaritan who crosses ethnic and social divisions to save an injured Galilean's life.
What is neighbor?
While Jacques de Vitry gets a lot right in his observations of the early Franciscan movement, he is wrong to classify the early Franciscans as part of this religious movement modeled on the early church.
What is the vita apostolica?
Francis and the brothers lived a life of this by using the resources of creation justly, so that all might have access to what they need.
What is poverty?
The Potawatomi word "min" is the root for berry—it's also the root word for this.
What is gift?
When Francis and the brothers traveled to Rome in the early days of their movement, they met with and received permission from this pope.
Who is Pope Innocent III?
This document, written around the year 1210, was the first to refer to the nobility of Assisi as the maiores and the middle class as the minores.
What is the Carta franchitatis?
The idea that God has given the goods of the earth to all creatures, such that the goods of the earth are meant to provide not merely for a few but for all, is called this.
What is the universal destination of goods?