'Return you children who have departed from me, and I will heal rebellions. Beware of all covetousness, for that is idolatry; a covetous man shall not be satisfied with money. But call to mind the days gone by, in which, after you have been enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings. Be not those who draw back unto destruction, but those who have faith to the saving of the soul. A man making void the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the word of two or three witnesses; how much worse the punishments do you think he deserves who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant through which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? Return, ye transgressors, to the heart, for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.'
Saint Francis of Assisi
Sacrum Commercium - 51
Saturday, January 03, 2009
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