St. Francis of Assisi and His Franciscan Ways are the inspiration of Shepherd Too. The instructions to reach this goal are simple:

"Start by doing what is necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

About the TAU Cross

When Pope Innocent III called for a great reform of the Roman Catholic Church in 1215, Saint Francis heard the pope open the Fourth Lateran Council with the same exhortation as the Old Testament Prophet Ezekiel: " We are called to reform our lives, to stand into the presence of God as righteous people. God will know us by the sign of the tau, T, marked on our foreheads." This symbolic imagery, used by the same pope who commissioned Francis' new community a brief five years earlier, was immediately taken to heart as his own call to reform. With arms outstretched, Francis often told his brother friars that their religious habit was in the same shape as the tau, meaning that they were called to be walking "crucifixes", models of a compassionate God and examples of faithfulness until their dying day.

Today, followers of Francis, as laity or religious, would wear the tau cross as an exterior sign, a "seal" of their own commitment, a remembrance of the victory of Christ over evil through daily self sacrificing love. The sign of contradiction has become the sign of hope, a witness of fidelity until the end of our lives.