St. Francis used to say that we should feel sorry for a preacher who sought his own glory in his work and not the good of his listeners, or who destroyed by the example of his bad life what he had accomplished by his teaching. Such a man is devoid of any true religious spirit. He maintained that an ordinary friar with no claim to eloquence was in a better position because he encouraged others to do good by his good example.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Bonaventure, Major Life
CHAPTER VIII
Saint Francis of Assisi
Bonaventure, Major Life
CHAPTER VIII
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St. Francis's words certainly ring as true today as they did back then. I admire him tremendously. (Perhaps that is partly why I have become a candidate in the SFO. Lots of learning to do still...)
ReplyDeleteHow right you are, dear sister. We need look no further than St. Francis himself, when, at the end of his life, he said, "Let us begin again for up until now we have done nothing"...
ReplyDeletePax Et Bonum!