"CUM GRANDE HUMILITATE!"

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Goes out to
John Michael Talbot
for giving us permission
to use his song on our
"Come to the Quiet"
You Tube Video
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Friday, August 22, 2008

His Hands And Feet Were Pierced As Though By Nails And His Side Wounded As Though By A Lance

...An unheard of joy tempered their [the whole city of Assisi] grief and the newness of a miracle threw their minds into great amazement. Their mourning was turned to song and their weeping to jubilation. For they had never heard or read in the Scriptures what was set before their eyes, what they could hardly be persuaded to believe if it had not been proved to them by evident testimony. For in truth there appeared in him a true image of the cross and of the passion of the lamb without blemish who washed away the sins of the world, for he seemed as though he had been recently taken down from the cross, his hands and feet were pierced as though by nails and his side wounded as though by a lance.

Saint Francis of Assisi
Celano, First Life
CHAPTER IX - 112

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