25 September 2004

On St Francis

St Bonaventure wrote:

“Francis sought occasion to love God in everything. He delighted in all the works of God’s hands and from the vision of joy on earth his mind soared aloft to the life-giving source and cause of all. In everything beautiful, he saw Him who is beauty itself, and he followed his Beloved everywhere by His likeness imprinted on creation; of all creation he made a ladder by which he might mount up and embrace Him who is all-desirable” (Legenda Major, IX, 1).

From the Saints of the Day for today, St Elzear and Blessed Delphina, from AmericanCatholic.org

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