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PARTICIPA! TOTS I TOTES SOM NECESSARIS!

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dissabte, 31 d’octubre del 2015

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI. October 4 – Patron of ecology



OCTOBER 4th is the feast of St. Francis, founder of the great Order of friars minor, who was born in the town of Assisi, central Italy, 1182. He is styled the “Little Poor Man”, because he renounced his inheritance and still earthly possessions, giving himself up utterly to the practice of poverty, living a life poorer than the poor whom he served.

Toward the end of his life he had prayed for two very special gifts. The first was that he might realize in his body and soul the sufferings of Christ; the other, that his heart might be filled, as far as possible, with the same excessive love which induced our Lord to undergo His sufferings for man. The answer came in the lofty, rugged Mount of La Vernia in 1224, when St. Francis received the Sacred Stigmata. His last days were filled with all the tender care that faithful love could lavish. On Saturday, October 3, 1226, St. Francis askes his brothers to lay him on the ground and to strew ashes over him because soon, he said, “I shall be nothing but dust and ashes.” Then he began to sing with unusual vigor the 141st psalm. At the words “Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise Thy name, the just await me till Thou reward me,” the seraphic soul of the Little Poor Man of Assisi had winged its flight to God. Outside his little friends the larks set up a joyful twitter. 





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