A Desire To Depart And To Be With Christ

"Death Fork" area at the Portiuncula Hermitage in Jerusalem, Ohio

The man of God Francis had been taught not to seek his own, but to seek especially what in his eyes would be helpful toward the salvation of others; but above everything else he desired to depart and to be with Christ...In the clefts of the rock he would build his nest and in the hollow places of the wall his dwelling.

Saint Francis of Assisi
Celano, First Life
CHAPTER XXVII

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