I would like to start today by reminding you, our faithful listeners and readers of our homilies, that the emphasis of this website is to proclaim the Gospel to you in a way that resonates with your lives and which the life of Saint Francis of Assisi himself can illuminate. And so we decided to call this website FranciscanPreacher.com because we would like to intersperse within our homilies examples from the life and teachings of Saint Francis.