My personal reasons for this study of the life of Saint Francis:

My heart and my soul were deeply moved and inspired by the study of Saint Francis and his
companions. I have developed this application for no other reason than to share the joy I have found in Christ through Brother Francis example of simplicity of faith in action.

Just as Francis lived during a period of transition when the world was moving out of the Middle Ages
into the Renaissance, so too our world and society are in transition from the Industrial Age into the
Computer or Information Age.

As history seems to repeat itself, I hope to learn lessons from the past to help me cope with the
upheaval of the future. I also hope to learn from Francis how to properly express my disappointment
with the excessive materialism of the generation that I am a part of. Perhaps you may also share my
yearning for release from this bondage to self-indulgence.

You may ask why we study the lives of Saints. For this answer I will quote St. Bernard of Clairvaux, 1090
- 1153. “The Saints have no need of honor from us; neither does our devotion add the slightest thing to
what is theirs. Clearly, if we venerate their memory, it serves us, not them, but I tell you, when I think of
them, I feel myself inflamed by tremendous yearning." To this I add Amen and Amen.
Blest to be a blessing,
Stephen Muhoro, 2016