Francis Of Assisi

Francis Of Assisi

Franciscan friar who embraced radical poverty and compassion.

A wealthy merchant's son who dramatically renounced material comfort to embrace radical spiritual poverty and compassion. His profound love for nature, commitment to serving the marginalized, and creation of a new monastic order transformed Christian spirituality, emphasizing a direct, intimate connection with the divine through simplicity and unconditional love. Francis reimagined spiritual practice as a holistic experience of compassion, seeing the sacred in every living creature and challenging the hierarchical, often materialistic approach of the medieval Catholic Church.

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  • Our hands imbibe like roots, so I place them on what is beautiful in this world. And I fold them in prayer, and they draw from the heavens light
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  • What wonderful majesty! What stupendous condescension! O sublime humility! That the Lord of the whole universe, God and the Son of God, should humble Himself like this under the form of a little bread, for our salvation ...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood.
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  • Don't change the world, change worlds.
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  • Everything in man should halt in awe...Let all the world quake and let Heaven exult when Christ the Son of the living God is there on the altar.
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  • The world is a great stage on which God displays his many wonders.
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  • We adore Thee most holy Lord Jesus Christ, here in all Thy Churches, which are in the whole world, because by Thy holy cross, Thou hast redeemed the world
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  • And just as He appeared before the holy Apostles in true flesh, so now He has us see Him in the Sacred Bread. Looking at Him with the eyes of their flesh, they saw only His Flesh, but regarding Him with the eyes of the spirit, they believed that He was God. In like manner, as we see bread and wine with our bodily eyes, let us see and believe firmly that it is His Most Holy Body and Blood, True and Living. For in this way our Lord is ever present among those who believe in him, according to what He said: "Behold, I am with you all days even to the consummation of the world."
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  • Be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.
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  • Holy obedience confounds all bodily and fleshly desires and keeps the body mortified to the obedience of the spirit and to the obedience of one's brother and makes a man subject to all the men of this world and not to men alone, but also to all beasts and wild animals, so that they may do with him whatsoever they will, in so far as it may be granted to them from above by the Lord.
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  • ....In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood.
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  • The greatest security we can have in this world that we are in the grace of God, does not consist in the feelings that we have of love to Him, but rather in an irrevocable abandonment of our whole being into His hands, and in a firm resolution never to consent to any sin great or small.
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  • Man should tremble, the world should vibrate, all heaven should be deeply moved when the Son of God appears on the altar in the hands of the priest.
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  • Let us also love our neighbors as ourselves. Let us have charity and humility. Let us give alms because these cleanse our souls from the stains of sin. Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.
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  • All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
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  • There is absolutely no man in the whole world who can possess one among you unless he first die.
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