St. Francis told the friar who cared for the gardens not to cultivate all the ground for vegetables, but to set side a plot to grow flowers to bloom in their season, out of love for Him Who is called "The Rose on the plain and the Lily on the mountain slopes." Indeed, he told the brother-gardener that he should always make a pleasant flower-garden, and cultivate every variety of fragrant herb and flowering plant, so that all who saw the herbs and flowers would be moved to praise God.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Mirror of Perfection - 118
Thursday, November 20, 2008
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