Jesus passes by and invites people to follow him promptly in his path as an envoy of the Father.
He calls not to catch more "fish", but to save men to be led back to God.
Francis, after his conversion, full of zeal for Christ, received the first brothers as a gift.
In the Sources, in his Testament, emphasising God's free initiative, we read:
"And after the Lord gave me brothers, no one showed me what I should do, but the Most High Himself revealed to me that I should live according to the form of the holy Gospel" (FF 116).
"Shortly afterwards, the same Spirit called five other men and the number of brothers rose to six.
Among them the third place fell to the holy father Aegidius, a man truly full of God and worthy of being solemnly remembered.
In fact, he later became very famous for his sublime virtues, as the Lord's servant had foretold of him, and, although illiterate and simple, he rose to the highest heights of contemplation.
For long periods of time Aegidius devoted himself unceasingly to mystical ascensions and was raptured into God, with such frequent ecstasies that, although he was among men, he seemed to lead a life more angelic than human" (FF 1055).
And Francis, on his way with Egidius to the March of Ancona, spoke to Brother Egidius thus:
"Our religious movement will be like the fisherman who casts his nets into the water and catches a multitude of fish; then, letting the small ones fall into the water, he piles up the big ones in baskets".
She prophesied with this simile the expansion of her Order" (FF 1436).
Clare herself, sister among sisters, raising prayers to the Great Elector, in her Testament points out:
"In fact, the Lord himself has placed us as a model, an example and mirror not only for other men, but also for our sisters, those whom the Lord himself has called to follow our vocation, so that they too may shine as a mirror and example for all those who live in the world" (FF 2829).
Not even the walls of the cloister had the power to remove Clare from her spiritual going "pilgrim and stranger in this world".
And this itinerancy in faith and poverty made her a silent but authentic drawer of souls to God.
"Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men" (Mt 4:19)
s. Andrew the Apostle (Mt 4:18-22)