Each year on the evening of October 3rd the Franciscan family throughout the world pauses to celebrate

the solemnity of our Holy Father Francis’s Transitus, passing over from this life to the next. In his famous
Canticle of the Creatures, the saint from Assisi wrote “Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister Bodily
Death, from whom no one living can escape.” That line, written near Francis’s own embrace of Sister
Bodily Death, reflects the importance and natural character of death in the life of all creation.

In this picture students joined the institutional mass ,mass is the central act of worship of the
Roman catholic church.Mass begins with the entrance song. The celebrant and other ministers enter in
procession and reverence the altar with a bow and/or a kiss. The altar is a symbol of Christ at the heart
of the assembly and so deserves this special reverence.

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 This is a transitus picture a commemorates of the completion of St. Francis early life, and his passage
through death into eternal life.