An authorised history of the Anglican Franciscan order, celebrating the contribution the Community of St Francis has made to religious life and the mission and ministry of the church.

Helen Stanton

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Title

Acknowledgements

Preface

1 Starting Points

2 Beginnings and Endings

3 Companions to the Poor

4 Change but not Decay

5 Compton Durville and Beyond

6 2004

7 At Home – Many Ministries

8 And Abroad

9 Endings and Renewals, Whys and Wherefores

References and Further Reading

Appendix 1 Record of Sisters of the Community of St Francis

Appendix 2 Principles of the First Order

Appendix 3 The Object of the Order

Index of Names and Subjects

Index of Bible References

Copyright

An authorised history of the Anglican Franciscan order, celebrating the contribution the Community of St Francis has made to religious life and the mission and ministry of the church since its origins in the early 20th century. It offers a significant contribution to the understanding of developing religious life and modern neo-monastic movements.

This is an authorised history of the Anglican Franciscan order, written at a time of growing interest in religious life, both in its traditional and more experimental forms. It celebrates the contribution the Community of St Francis has made to religious life and the mission and ministry of the church since its origins in the early 20th century and offers a significant contribution to the understanding of developing religious life and today's neo-monastic movements. Beginning with the emergence of Anglican Franciscanism in the 19th century, it traces \* the establishment of CSF against the backdrop of great tension between Anglo-Catholicism and Anglican Papalism \* the development of the community's charism through its work with the poor in London's East End during the Depression and in the aftermath of war \* its pioneering leaders and its influence in the women's ordination debate \* its contribution to Anglican liturgy, especially through Celebrating Common Prayer \* its role in shaping new monastic communities today.

HELEN STANTON is a freelance theologian, teacher, writer and retreat leader. She teaches Christian spirituality at Ripon College Cuddesdon, the Cambridge Theological Federation and Queen's, Birmingham.

• At a time of growing interest in monasticism, this offers a substantial study of contemporary religious life from an Anglican Franciscan perspective. • Offers important insights into the tensions between traditional religious life and experimental responses to God's call in today's new monastic movements.

For Peace and For Good is the history of the influential Anglican religious order, the Community of St Francis. Written with the full co-operation of the community, it sets their story against the wider backdrop of the lives of St Clare and St Francis, and the extraordinary surge of women's vocations to the religious life during the Catholic revival in the Church of England. It explores the lives of its founding members, its growth, the various branch houses, and the work and ministries in which they engaged in response to God's call. First-hand accounts by Sisters bring to vivid life the story of a community responding with courage and imagination to the needs, opportunities and challenges of their times. Their stories provide significant insight and inspiration into what Christian discipleship might need to look like in the twenty-first century.

For Peace and For Good

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An authorised history of the Anglican Franciscan order, celebrating the contribution the Community of St Francis has made to religious life and the mission and ministry of the church.

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