The Compare And Contrast. Benedict And St. Francis Of Assisi

Monastic orders is like what we have with Marmion. Where there are monks that make an oath to the church that say to serve it and help it in any ways needed. They get fed with the church and the church is their home. Also they live with other monks and they consider them brothers or fathers. And each one of them respects the elders of the church and or they respect the people that are a higher position. St. Benedict and St. Francis of Assisi were two saints that lived these lives and also made some major building blocks in both of these orders. Mendicant orders are similar to monastic orders with their requirements except the mendicant orders are much stricter. They do not own property together or individually and every single bit of their time has to go to religious work no matter what. It is pretty much a full and complete commitment to Jesus and Christianity St Benedict was the father of western monasticism. He is the one that created and founded the idea of monasticism. He lived the life just like his fallowers and
As he grew up he lived a very easy life because his father was a very rich man. He was a born leader and he was always super happy. Everybody loved this man because of his personality. He later on converted to Christianity. It took over 25 years to convert because God had to wait for him. A famous story about St. Francis is when he was riding by in the countryside and he saw a leper whom usually he would be so disgusted by that he would normally ignored him but instead he decided to kiss his hand. The peace was restored and as he turned to wave and he noticed that the leper had disappeared. St. Francis was so happy that he decided that this was a test from God and he passed it. St. Francis from that point on searched for and studied about Christianity and how Jesus would want him to live. He became a very pious man and encouraged all the Friars that he worked with to be the same