Our thorns in the flesh are not arbitrary miseries; they are personal, individual and valuable challenges. Our crowns are made from them.
~Elizabeth Scalia, “A Most small-c Catholic Drama“
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Wed 26 May 2010
Mon 8 Mar 2010
While he was in this affected state, something absolutely unheard-of occurred. The crucifix moved its lips and began to speak. “Francis,” it said, calling him by name, “go and repair my house, which, as you see, is completely destroyed.” Francis was stupefied and nearly deranged by this speech. He prepared to obey, surrendering himself completely to the project. But since he considered the change in him to be beyond description, it is best for us to be silent about what he himself could not describe. From then on compassion for the crucified one was imprinted in his holy soul and, one may devoutly suspect, the stigmata of the holy passion were deeply imprinted in his heart, though not yet in his flesh.
~Thomas of Celano, First and Second Lives of Saint Francis
Tue 2 Feb 2010
Pure holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
~St. Francis of Assisi, Salutation of the Virtues
Tue 26 Jan 2010
It is when we attribute to ourselves and try to hold onto what is in reality God’s gift that we are of the flesh, appropriators who violate holy poverty.
~Murray Bodo, O.F.M. — The Way of St. Francis: The Challenge of Franciscan Spirituality for Everyone
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