Living The Prayer Of St. Francis - by Lou Redmond

COURSE

Living The Prayer Of St. Francis

With Lou Redmond

This spiritually nourishing course explores the wisdom of St. Francis of Assisi to help you live with a greater connection to the Divine. Through guided reflections, meditations, and personal storytelling, you'll immerse yourself in The Prayer of St. Francis and its teachings on love, forgiveness, hope, and transformation. Each lesson uncovers practical and spiritual insights to help you embody the prayer in your everyday life. You'll also learn other writings from St. Francis to help deepen the learnings. By the end, you’ll feel inspired to live with deeper faith, courage, and intimacy with God. This course is both for long-time lovers of St. Francis and seekers exploring him for the first time.


Meet your Teacher

Lou is a meditation teacher, author, and transformational coach. He’s been teaching meditation since 2015, after experiencing a profound awakening through the practice. His teachings span wisdom traditions and focus on empowering others through authenticity and vulnerability. Growing up Catholic, he chose the confirmation name Francis, which led to a cherished connection to St. Francis of Assisi. Lou appreciates his religious roots and is inspired by Christian mystics and modern teachers like Richard Rohr and Cynthia Bourgeault. Other Christian-inspired offerings on Insight Timer include a universalistic take on Psalm 23, The Lord's Prayer, and Psalm 46:10.

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6 Days

513 students

4.9 stars

19 min / day

Compassion

English


Lesson 1

The Peacemaker

On this first day of our journey, we reflect on the opening lines of the Prayer of St. Francis and what it means to embody peace. Through guided meditation, we invite peace into our hearts, releasing self-criticism and embracing the truth that divine grace works through us, no matter our imperfections. From this place of renewal, we extend peace outward—to those we know, and to the world. Today, you begin living this prayer, allowing peace to flow through you in words, thoughts, and actions.

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Lesson 2

The Instrument

At its foundation, The Prayer of Saint Francis is helping us become instruments of God. Today’s lesson will help us allow the flow through and guide our lives. As instruments of God, we’ll work to embody love, faith, hope, and light in the face of life’s challenges, finding deeper intimacy with the Divine. Together, we’ll meditate and invite this sacred purpose into our lives.

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Lesson 3

The Comforter

Today, we reflect on the powerful idea of giving to receive, focusing on the line, “May I not so much seek to be consoled as to console.” This teaching encourages us to offer comfort to others, trusting that in doing so, we also experience peace. By embodying the divine comfort that is always available to us, we can become instruments of healing for ourselves and the world.

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Lesson 4

Seek To Understand

Today, we focus on one of the prayer’s most transformative lines: “May I not so much seek to be understood as to understand.” Often, in our conversations, we’re eager to get our point across, but true connection happens when we shift from seeking to be heard to seeking to listen. Understanding opens the door to healing—both for others and for ourselves. In our meditation, we’ll focus on the power of empathy, compassion, and the deep peace that comes when we make space for others to feel seen and heard.

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Lesson 5

The Lover

Welcome to Day 5 where we wrap up our series on Giving to Receive, focusing on the power of Love. St. Francis invites us not to seek to be loved but to be love itself. This love is the very fabric of God, and when we embody it, we become a strand of the divine, wrapping a tapestry of love in whatever we touch. In our meditation, we focus on sowing love where there is hatred and becoming a living expression of divine beauty, compassion, and peace.

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Lesson 6

Eternal Life

On our final day together, we reflect on the profound teachings of The Prayer of St. Francis: It is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Through the lens of both archetypal and literal death, we explore transformation and the enduring nature of life. Today, we honor our journey of growth, the cycles of change, and the eternal connection we share with those we’ve lost. We will surrender to the profound peace that comes from knowing death is only a release into eternal life.

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Ask your teacher

This course includes 49 community questions and 43 audio replies from Lou Redmond. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Helen

Helen

February 8, 2026

Thank you Lou. I loved the simple depth of this course. It has given me a beautiful vignette of peace in my soul journey.

Patricia

January 15, 2026

Very impactful. Thank you.

Shannon

January 13, 2026

Exceptional. Deeply moving and insightful.

juliette

November 14, 2025

Such a beautiful course. I’m going to repeat it!

Mark

August 28, 2025

What a beautiful way to explore this prayer of someone I have followed my entire life. Thank you for that.

Lois

August 16, 2025

This is a wonderful course. I love this prayer and Lou provides greater insight of each line. Lou's voice is pleasing to listen to, he has a calming, soothing quality. He has inspired me to find out more about St. Francis. Thank you, Lou 😊

Jen

Jen

July 23, 2025

Excellent course. A gentle safe place to explore kindness. So grateful to you for producing so much incredible content, Lou. Thank you. 💚🙏🏻

Bernadette

July 16, 2025

I cannot wait to start it all again tomorrow

Wendy

July 15, 2025

I loved this course. I’ve always wanted to do a deep dive into the St Francis of Assisi prayer, as it is, line by line, the way I desire to live my daily life. I want to share this with everyone one I know. Thank you Louis Francis Redmond. Wendy Bay Area, California

Terri

May 14, 2025

Wonderful course! ❤️ I have read St. Francis' prayer many times in the past, but you did an excellent job of helping me see it in more depth. Thank you for this lovely course and encouraging words.

Charmian

May 7, 2025

So wonderful! Thank you 🙏 Healing, profound, inspiring. I will take the course again because I loved it so much.

Susan

April 8, 2025

This is the most profound course I have taken since I started my journey on Insight Timer . Perhaps the timing has something to do with it, thr synchronicity with the current challlenges I and my family are facing. Regardless, Louis Francis Redmond, you have reached my soul and there’s a light burning within me that is already radiating outward into my daily life. I choose to embrace being the “ living expression of Christ” and I tell you, it feels so darn good. So right. So real. Thank you . Thank you. Thank you.

Frank

April 3, 2025

I had committed to praying the prayer of St Francis every morning as part of my Lenten practice this year. I came across your course while searching for different meditations centered around this prayer. Very inspiring and grounding. Thank you.

Eddy

March 20, 2025

THANK YOU FOR THIS LESSON, IT FILLED MY HEART WITH LOVE.

Philip

March 20, 2025

Louis Francis Redman you did an absolute masterpiece in creating this beautiful course on the Prayer of Saint Francis!!! Thank you from my soul to yours!

Jay

February 22, 2025

Excellent course. I am planning to repeat it. There is so much to take in, once is not enough. Thank you.

Sharon

February 18, 2025

I have sang and said the Prayer of St. Francis for years. Thank you for introducing me to a new way to hear it and apply it to my life. ❤️🙏

Paul-Emile

January 23, 2025

I lover this cours. Thank you! 🙏❤️🙏

April

January 20, 2025

Beautifully done course with great initial & thought provoking daily reflection on the St. Francis prayer with ample quiet meditation time. I love how the perspectives of other great spiritual teachers (even from other traditions) are artfully woven in. Thank you, Lou, for this course!

Jill

January 20, 2025

Thank you.

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