Once when St. Francis was staying in a cell at Siena, he called his sleeping companions one night, saying: "I have asked the Lord, brothers, to deign to show me when I am his servant. And the most kind Lord just now deigned to give me his reply: "Know that you are then truly my servant when you think, speak, and do holy things." Therefore, I have called you, brothers, because I wish to be filled with shame before you if at any time I do nothing of these three things."
Saint Francis of Assisi
Celano, Second Life
CHAPTER CXVII - 159
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