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501 19 | more humbly than any other friar." (Thomas of Celano, Legenda,
502 2 | these comparisons, the fruit for the most part of party
503 34 | assigned to each and to fulfill these with care; on the
504 1 | is now to be added, as a fulfillment of the fruits received or
505 22 | consecrated gladly and submitted fully his will, the greatest gift
506 43 | May it be their peculiar function to call back their fellowmen
507 11 | streets with them, singing gaily. But even at that time in
508 24 | Innocent III, in order to gain the Pope's approval of his
509 20 | his body, which might have gained for him the esteem and praise
510 28 | living stones of which, gathered from every part of the world,
511 32 | in few but fiery words, gathering by this ministry and by
512 11 | because of the nobility and generosity of his heart; wherefore
513 18 | 18. The high ideals and generous love of poverty which possessed
514 40 | that we would not possess a genuine picture of the real Francis.
515 14 | him if he was thinking of getting married and quickly replied,
516 22 | fully his will, the greatest gift which God has bestowed on
517 2 | was, but showing him a man gifted by nature and grace which
518 22 | of obedience consecrated gladly and submitted fully his
519 38 | better by those who enjoy the glories of heaven than by human
520 43 | Almighty is in many ways glorified by them." (de Conditoris
521 6 | of private persons, even going to the length of rebelling
522 19 | 19. The author of that golden book The Imitation of Christ
523 7 | rights of the barons to govern, or because the strong wished
524 19 | desired to give up the supreme government of his Order "in order to
525 20 | hide those privileges and graces, especially the stigmata
526 6 | Sepulcher. However, heresies gradually arose and grew in the vineyard
527 39 | literature by exalting the grandeur of the saint.~
528 32 | one, even if he were grown gray in habits of vice and sin,
529 18 | virtue from the other and greeted them both warmly: "Holy
530 31 | which was falling to the ground. The Pope then understood
531 39 | small parties or in large groups, in order to recall for
532 36 | that vast expansion and growth among Christian nations
533 8 | should have most scrupulously guarded themselves from such sin.
534 14 | some warmth, that they had guessed rightly because he proposed
535 32 | if he were grown gray in habits of vice and sin, could resist
536 29 | false spirit of secularism, habitually attempt to strip our saintly
537 27 | his own example. He wore a hair shirt, he was clothed in
538 6 | society. In a word, what happened then is precisely what we
539 47 | shall not pass without the happiest fruits for the Catholic
540 5 | the Jubilee Indulgences happily coincides with this centennial
541 13 | 13. It is not hard to imagine, although We
542 40 | birds, lambs, fishes or hares. He seemed filled with a
543 | hast
544 44 | sinners in much larger numbers hasten back to the merciful arms
545 27 | barefoot, he slept resting his head on a stone or on the trunk
546 42 | not in itself be enough to heal and even put an end to the
547 13 | kindness that being "no mere hearer of the Gospel" he had decided
548 34 | example, on the duty of hearing Mass; of attending meetings
549 7 | faith still lived in the hearts of men, in some cases intact
550 15 | you, my dearest brothers, heirs and kings of the Kingdom
551 29 | accomplished and which have proven helpful to the fatherland and to
552 6 | Holy Sepulcher. However, heresies gradually arose and grew
553 15 | virtue. This should be your heritage; to which, giving yourselves
554 40 | of all the virtues in a heroic manner, by the austerity
555 28 | to perform deeds of great heroism; walking with a strong heart
556 20 | in every possible way to hide those privileges and graces,
557 23 | faithful in all things to the hierarchy of the Church, to this Apostolic
558 41 | thus themselves aspire to higher ideals.~
559 11 | Francis was expansive and highstrung, a lover of luxurious dress.
560 2 | other men or unlike the historical figure he actually was,
561 41 | should take care not to hold him up as a precursor and
562 20 | would have become ten times holier than he, and that to God
563 29 | the same time admire the homage and love due to God. Therefore
564 42 | which, while living, he honored by his presence, by the
565 7 | parties in the same city. Horrible massacres, conflagrations,
566 20 | lords often offered him hospitality but he abruptly refused
567 34 | recitation of the canonical hours and other prayers; the duty
568 8 | foreign to the spirit of humanity. Peace-loving people were
569 38 | the whole period of seven hundred years just ending the memory
570 42 | year which marks the Seven Hundredth Anniversary of his death,
571 34 | case of husbands and of the husband in the case of wives; love
572 34 | the wife in the case of husbands and of the husband in the
573 26 | winter, to plunge into the icy waters of a stream.~
574 22 | Father, motivated by the idea of perfect poverty which
575 1 | faithful imitation of the ideal of sanctity which he exemplified
576 29 | mud of voluptuousness, who ignore and cast aside the laws
577 27 | matter whether he was well or ill, he treated his body with
578 8 | swelled their patrimony by an illicit trade in public of and emoluments,
579 3 | present hour, in remedying the ills of society. In fact, his
580 1 | must reject that purely imaginary figure of the Saint conjured
581 36 | also kings and princes who imbibed, together with the Franciscan
582 42 | some way this man, and in imitating him make themselves better." (
583 41 | true picture of this great imitator of Christ and thus themselves
584 1 | heavenly home. Since Our immediate Predecessor has assigned
585 34 | abstain from feasting, from immodest shows and balls; abstinence
586 35 | the same exemptions and immunities which the latter already
587 8 | even by the procuring of immunity from punishment for persons
588 48 | depths of Our heart, We impart, in Our Lord, the Apostolic
589 35 | liberty which was otherwise impossible under the conditions of
590 11 | disdain of wealth. After his imprisonment in Perugia, which was followed
591 36 | there arose that profound impulse toward a saving reform of
592 8 | harassed and oppressed with impunity by the powerful. Those who
593 6 | the Church to which they imputed the faults of private persons,
594 40 | fascinated by the majesty of inanimate nature, by the splendor
595 31 | which made him think himself incapable of accomplishing any great
596 8 | other times by usury. Many increased and swelled their patrimony
597 23 | about him, imagine such an incredible thing as that Francis was
598 27 | Neither did he neglect to inculcate austerity of life in his
599 25 | according to one's own whims or individual interpretation of the Rule,
600 27 | the ass"; nor could he be induced to give himself any relief
601 29 | that, in our times, many infected by the false spirit of secularism,
602 26 | himself moved or likely to be influenced by sensual feeling, he did
603 37 | brotherhood, for many lands inhabited by the heathen have been
604 8 | possessions and were driven by an insatiable desire for riches. These
605 23 | them about this with great insistence, namely, that in the exercise
606 3 | charity now more profoundly inspire and guide social life itself.~
607 24 | he delayed not even an instant in presenting himself personally,
608 35 | his disciples and, by the institution of the Third Order, laid
609 12 | to make himself a capable instrument for the reformation of society.~
610 2 | are at the same time an insult to God, the author of sanctity -
611 7 | hearts of men, in some cases intact and in others a bit obscured,
612 47 | should receive, through the intercession of St. Francis, so great
613 35 | about a new type of civic intercourse. We will not call this merely
614 35 | harassed by those whose every interest it was to cause conditions
615 33 | and even nations, torn by interminable wars and steeped in blood.
616 7 | cities of Italy were torn by internecine wars because one party desired
617 25 | own whims or individual interpretation of the Rule, but according
618 4 | Brothers, as the messengers and interpreters of Our words to arouse in
619 28 | so rapidly to a state of intoxication of divine love" burst into
620 23 | always be preserved and inviolably, and that the priests who
621 20 | abruptly refused all such invitations. Though he exhibited the
622 11 | dress. He was accustomed to invite to magnificent banquets
623 27 | Moreover, he preached and invited all to penance by his own
624 16 | appeared to the world both irksome and foreign to the spirit
625 41 | 41. Why then forbid Italians to glory in him who was
626 29 | 7th of November, Lesson IV)~
627 15 | was for poverty, nor more jealous in the custody of a treasure
628 46 | cannot, because of their age, join the Third Order, they should
629 40 | He appears to have been joined to them in a kind of brotherhood
630 11 | military mission. On this journey he felt himself commanded
631 44 | Church feel the increasing joy of seeing her children restored
632 32 | conjugal rights and the joys of domestic life.~
633 2 | accounts of his life and works, judged him to be of a nobility
634 47 | for the Catholic Church, judging from the great and holy
635 23 | respect at all times." (Julian a Spira, Life of St. Francis,
636 38 | period of seven hundred years just ending the memory of so
637 40 | change their import so as to justify either our own morbid ideas
638 27 | was barely sufficient to keep him from dying of starvation.
639 43 | the way of perfection, the key of paradise, the pledge
640 13 | said, he was so filled with kindness that being "no mere hearer
641 15 | heirs and kings of the Kingdom of heaven, which made you
642 40 | these creatures because he knew that they had the same origin
643 11 | was a brave soldier and knight of Christ because of the
644 13 | to imagine, although We know it is a very difficult task
645 13 | burned within him. Everyone knows how he, because of the noble
646 7 | a bit obscured, however lacking they might have been in
647 40 | and made of these things a ladder whereby to reach His throne." (
648 35 | institution of the Third Order, laid the foundations of a new
649 40 | lovers of flowers, birds, lambs, fishes or hares. He seemed
650 8 | called, between the owners of land and the peasants existed
651 37 | Franciscan brotherhood, for many lands inhabited by the heathen
652 40 | works printed in various languages have seen the light of day.
653 44 | prayers, may sinners in much larger numbers hasten back to the
654 42 | then alone can We hope for lasting fruits, when those men who
655 31 | shoulders the Church of the Lateran which was falling to the
656 10 | We have described, and to lead them back to the pure ideals
657 6 | virtue and piety, easily led weak and simple souls astray.
658 42 | the example which he has left us, that they accept him
659 8 | their souls the lepers - leprosy was then very widespread -
660 41 | newborn love of country, thus lessening his glorious title of "Catholic
661 | let
662 46 | Predecessors, Leo XIII in the letter Auspicato and Benedict XV
663 21 | duties as preachers, men of letters, philosophers, superiors
664 6 | the centuries; rebellions leveled against the Church are followed
665 6 | heretics ended their careers in licentiousness and vice, and succeeded
666 2 | of life shone forth more lifelike and strikingly than in St.
667 14 | stopped suddenly and, as if lifted outside himself by a wonderful
668 | likely
669 39 | perfection and beauty the likeness and life of Francis in paintings,
670 37 | reformation of the faithful, so likewise set about personally and
671 44 | continue to spread abroad, like lilies planted in the Garden of
672 40 | succeeded in arousing an almost limitless admiration for St. Francis
673 35 | new social order built on lines in strict conformity with
674 32 | him, speaking to him, or listening to his words. No one, even
675 39 | elsewhere who brought glory to literature by exalting the grandeur
676 27 | trunk of a tree, ate so little that it was barely sufficient
677 38 | from him has never been lost at any time or in any place.
678 40 | should become mere friends or lovers of flowers, birds, lambs,
679 15 | affection that he called her in loving accents, Lady, Mother, Spouse.
680 21 | Christ (Matt. xx, 26, 28; Luke xxii, 26), considered humility
681 11 | and highstrung, a lover of luxurious dress. He was accustomed
682 1 | error or by the followers of luxury and worldly comforts, and
683 45 | soldiers of Christ and new Maccabees," will today also, with
684 26 | and defended even to the maceration of his own flesh. We have
685 11 | accustomed to invite to magnificent banquets the friends he
686 29 | of religion, praising and magnifying them exclusively because
687 9 | help and strength to the maintenance of ecclesiastical discipline,
688 40 | seemed fascinated by the majesty of inanimate nature, by
689 23 | false liberty which began to manifest itself at the beginning
690 29 | to the fatherland and to mankind. We do not cease to wonder
691 30 | Francis, trained in the manly virtues We have written
692 8 | acquired in divers and sinful manners, sometimes by the violent
693 39 | and in mosaics. Thus Santa Maria degli Angeli was built on
694 21 | followers as the distinctive mark of his Order - namely, "
695 42 | Patriarch during this year which marks the Seven Hundredth Anniversary
696 14 | was thinking of getting married and quickly replied, with
697 38 | 38. No one will therefore marvel that throughout the whole
698 7 | the same city. Horrible massacres, conflagrations, devastation
699 5 | better appreciated by the masses than formerly; also that
700 19 | become the superior and master on whom even he was to depend.
701 32 | many people, even some of mature age, vied with one another
702 9 | many spiritual fruits to maturity, tarnished now by the dirt
703 | me
704 | meantime
705 32 | came out in procession to meet Francis, and there was much
706 34 | hearing Mass; of attending meetings called on certain fixed
707 34 | No one was accepted as a member unless he were of an unquestioned
708 35 | feudal law, and by their membership in the Order they achieved
709 47 | will remain forever a year memorable in the history of the Church.~
710 4 | Venerable Brothers, as the messengers and interpreters of Our
711 3 | greatness appears to the minds of men with no less splendor
712 34 | with the consent of one's Minister; the recitation of the canonical
713 31 | their import through the miraculous vision in which Francis
714 42 | him as a man who was "a mirror of virtue, a path of righteousness,
715 28 | among the poor, the most miserable of all, the lepers, whom
716 27 | dying of starvation. He even mixed ashes and water with his
717 29 | view the saint merely as models of human excellence or as
718 27 | 129) he advised them to moderate a too excessive abstinence
719 34 | the use of clothes, and of modesty in feminine attire; that
720 24 | after it had been somewhat modified, in answer to the prayers
721 43 | manifold roots with the moisture and sap of brotherly love,
722 9 | these decrees? Even the monastic life, which had brought
723 8 | the violent extortion of money and other times by usury.
724 8 | custom, too, was prevalent of monopolizing wealth and piling up large
725 34 | will and testament three months after admission into the
726 39 | to admire these immortal monuments of art. Moreover, there
727 40 | to justify either our own morbid ideas or excuse our false
728 10 | on a dark night, like the morning which spreads itself over
729 37 | found martyrdom in Syria and Morocco recorded in words of highest
730 39 | statues, in engravings, and in mosaics. Thus Santa Maria degli
731 22 | how the Seraphic Father, motivated by the idea of perfect poverty
732 41 | draw from his life strong motives to examine more profoundly
733 40 | the beauty of his Umbrian mountains and valleys, but, like Adam
734 29 | or who roll in the very mud of voluptuousness, who ignore
735 5 | born was manifested in a multitude of demonstrations of piety
736 6 | went about, too, amid the multitudes spreading the destructive
737 11 | soldier of Christ, the divers mysteries of the Cross shone round
738 31 | understand the meaning of these mysterious words. Innocent III, however,
739 43 | from heaven and bless the mystical vine which he with his own
740 27 | greatly, the sufferings of one nailed to a cross, for he had become
741 42 | visit Assisi and the other nearby sanctuaries of verdant Umbria,
742 4 | 4. The nearness of so great and happy an
743 35 | Tertiaries with the clergy there necessarily resulted this happy consequence,
744 34 | except in case of urgent necessity recognized by the Apostolic
745 37 | Faith and Law of Christ. Nor need We dwell at length on a
746 42 | society another Francis is needed today. But We say, do what
747 27 | he bore. Neither did he neglect to inculcate austerity of
748 8 | then very widespread - and neglected these outcasts completely
749 28 | poured out in love for his neighbor, and conquering himself
750 2 | in rendering easy for his neighbors the highest possible perfection.
751 41 | sign and banner of their newborn love of country, thus lessening
752 36 | glory of sainthood. The noblest virtues, too, came back
753 3 | of Catholics but even of non-Catholics, continues amazingly to
754 23 | proved both to Catholics and nonCatholics by the admirable example
755 17 | and which is particualarly noteworthy in the men of our own day?
756 6 | they were inspired. It is a notorious fact that before long the
757 3 | 3. Notwithstanding the long time that has elapsed
758 43 | own hands planted, and to nourish and strengthen its manifold
759 29 | Roman Breviary, 7th of November, Lesson IV)~
760 34 | permitted after a year of novitiate, subject to the consent
761 47 | Francis as Our patron. We have numbered Ourselves, too, among his
762 17 | posterity in his poem "The Nuptials of St. Francis and Poverty,"
763 19 | each one is in thine eyes, O Lord, so much is he and
764 34 | religious order, it does not obligate its members to take vows.
765 32 | Patriarch himself was often obliged to dissuade many and turn
766 7 | intact and in others a bit obscured, however lacking they might
767 34 | world, the means not only of observing the laws of God but of attaining
768 35 | Gregory IX who overcame every obstacle put in their way and prohibited
769 34 | those who had fallen or were obstinate in sin; on the duty of not
770 37 | commanded his disciples to occupy themselves before everything
771 20 | Cardinals and great lords often offered him hospitality but he abruptly
772 25 | they celebrate "the divine office according to the calendar
773 34 | duty of not refusing the offices and functions assigned to
774 32 | popular songs, and waving of olive branches. Persons of every
775 35 | very spirit of the Gospels. Omitting everything in these Rules
776 43 | by them." (de Conditoris Omnium, 9 May, 1238) On the one
777 | once
778 5 | important as the preceding ones. The present condition of
779 42 | and people. From this hour onward there is presented to Our
780 6 | Lord, propagated either by open heretics or by sly deceivers
781 6 | the Holy See, later they openly manifested the real intention
782 40 | ideas or excuse our false opinions, or to uphold thereby some
783 23 | thing as that Francis was an opponent of the discipline of the
784 35 | Rule of the Third Order was opposed to the feudal law, and by
785 15 | inspiration and which is quite the opposite of that forced and unlovable
786 8 | people were harassed and oppressed with impunity by the powerful.
787 18 | which are in the world." (Opusculum, Salutatio Virtutum, p.
788 11 | to the Gospels as to an oracle whenever he had to make
789 Ded | archbishops, bishops, and other ordinaries~in peace and communion with
790 8 | paraded their riches in a wild orgy of clothes, banquets, and
791 40 | knew that they had the same origin as he (St. Bonaventure,
792 45 | apostolate which, at its origins, made them worthy to be
793 8 | many places against vice, ostentatiously paraded their riches in
794 | otherwise
795 8 | widespread - and neglected these outcasts completely in their segregation
796 35 | Honorius III and Gregory IX who overcame every obstacle put in their
797 8 | allowed themselves to be overcome by egotism and greed for
798 14 | a wisdom which cannot be overthrown by the sophistries of human
799 8 | were called, between the owners of land and the peasants
800 18 | Opusculum, Salutatio Virtutum, p. 20 et seq., edition 1904)~
801 39 | likeness and life of Francis in paintings, in statues, in engravings,
802 6 | every class bore arms in Palestine to free the Holy Sepulcher.
803 8 | against vice, ostentatiously paraded their riches in a wild orgy
804 43 | of perfection, the key of paradise, the pledge of an eternal
805 17 | the increase and which is particualarly noteworthy in the men of
806 47 | the Catholic world, and in particular Our nation, Italy, should
807 16 | The reason why Francis particularly loved poverty was because
808 7 | warfare carried on by the partisans of the Empire, on the one
809 43 | now "established in all parts of the world" - as Gregory
810 25 | Rule of Friars Minor, passim)~
811 37 | highest praise? With the passing of time this apostolate
812 2 | for the most part of party passions, are valueless and are at
813 5 | by the experience of the past not to expect peace and
814 46 | repeat and recommend to your pastoral zeal. We expect that you
815 42 | was "a mirror of virtue, a path of righteousness, a rule
816 Ded | venerable brethren, the patriarchs, primates,~archbishops,
817 8 | increased and swelled their patrimony by an illicit trade in public
818 35 | they had as defenders and patrons the Popes Honorius III and
819 8 | the spirit of humanity. Peace-loving people were harassed and
820 15 | treasure than he was of this pearl of the Gospel." (Legenda
821 8 | the owners of land and the peasants existed relations in every
822 43 | among us. May it be their peculiar function to call back their
823 40 | No. 6) and in them all he perceived the goodness of God. St.
824 34 | especially, the sick; on the performing of the last rites for dead
825 | perhaps
826 3 | his work of reform has permeated so deeply Christian peoples
827 25 | of a bishop without his permission, and that they should not
828 29 | which you praise or do not permit yourself to praise that
829 40 | purposes were directed to persuading men to conform their lives
830 11 | After his imprisonment in Perugia, which was followed by a
831 48 | Blessing.~Given at Rome, at St. Peter's, on the thirtieth day
832 8 | monopolizing wealth and piling up large fortunes. These
833 7 | conflagrations, devastation and pillage, exile, confiscation of
834 42 | virtues, from which places the pious pilgrims can scarcely return
835 48 | fifth of Our Pontificate. ~PIUS XI ~ ~
836 32 | reborn to a new moral life, placed themselves under the direction
837 39 | Angeli was built on that very plain where Francis "poor and
838 13 | assistance did so with the plea "for the love of God." (
839 41 | very far from being. May it please Heaven that they who, through
840 46 | world and which greatly pleased them, We repeat and recommend
841 44 | Lord, a sweet fragrance so pleasing to God. Through their prayers,
842 11 | among the fashionable and pleasure-loving young men of the town. He
843 26 | on he cast aside the vain pleasures of this world, he began
844 26 | very depths of winter, to plunge into the icy waters of a
845 40 | it one of the first great poems of the early Italian language.
846 7 | struggles for supremacy between political parties in the same city.
847 24 | approval of his Rules. That Pontiff of immortal memory, moved
848 35 | defenders and patrons the Popes Honorius III and Gregory
849 39 | to who should succeed in portraying with the greatest perfection
850 40 | certain that we would not possess a genuine picture of the
851 34 | that time, for while it possesses the spirit of a religious
852 25 | living in obedience, without possessing any property, and in all
853 8 | by egotism and greed for possessions and were driven by an insatiable
854 14 | beautiful than she could possibly be found, meaning by these
855 17 | anticipated this admiration of posterity in his poem "The Nuptials
856 28 | 21) This love of God he poured out in love for his neighbor,
857 24 | and presence of the humble Poverello, embraced Francis with great
858 4 | from evangelical ideals and practices, to help in recalling to
859 29 | empty spirit of religion, praising and magnifying them exclusively
860 5 | equally as important as the preceding ones. The present condition
861 6 | word, what happened then is precisely what we see recurring so
862 1 | home. Since Our immediate Predecessor has assigned this Saint,
863 35 | powerful, and all this without prejudice to good order and justice.
864 40 | uphold thereby some of our prejudices, it is certain that we would
865 47 | with great pleasure the preparations which are being made to
866 1 | Catholics everywhere are preparing to celebrate, the Seventh
867 25 | clerics of the Order it is prescribed that they celebrate "the
868 15 | himself, recommending and prescribing for his followers in the
869 35 | understand how from the other prescriptions of the Rules there should
870 24 | delayed not even an instant in presenting himself personally, together
871 23 | Church should always be preserved and inviolably, and that
872 29 | very significant: "He who pretends to admire the good works
873 8 | sin. The custom, too, was prevalent of monopolizing wealth and
874 41 | Breviary of Friars Minor) Why prevent the defenders of the rights
875 20 | worthy to be ordained a priest?~
876 35 | that these matters are of primary importance, everyone can
877 Ded | brethren, the patriarchs, primates,~archbishops, bishops, and
878 36 | Order, but also kings and princes who imbibed, together with
879 40 | a great number of works printed in various languages have
880 43 | day more and more their pristine splendor. On the other hand,
881 28 | see that all these virtues proceeded from the one and same fountain
882 32 | people and clergy came out in procession to meet Francis, and there
883 8 | justice, and even by the procuring of immunity from punishment
884 25 | firm in their intention to profess them until death." Those
885 6 | deceivers who, because they professed a certain austerity of life
886 6 | enthusiasm with which not only professional soldiers but even citizens
887 29 | of human excellence or as professors of an empty spirit of religion,
888 36 | therefore, there arose that profound impulse toward a saving
889 29 | what they have done for the progress of arts and sciences, or
890 8 | class of human beings, the proletariat, allowed themselves to be
891 12 | 12. In order not to prolong this subject unduly, let
892 45 | less efficacy, succeed in promoting the common good provided
893 8 | the laws which had been promulgated in many places against vice,
894 45 | St. Francis, by giving proof of innocence of life and
895 6 | the vineyard of the Lord, propagated either by open heretics
896 46 | in the encyclical Sacra Propediem, wrote to all the bishops
897 23 | he was the precursor and prophet of that false liberty which
898 32 | and turn aside from the proposal to leave the world both
899 47 | Francis who "in his life propped up the house and in his
900 20 | to accept such praise but protested that he was worthy only
901 43 | give, shall become living protests against the concupiscence
902 23 | Herald of the Great King proved both to Catholics and nonCatholics
903 45 | promoting the common good provided they, although they have
904 2 | hesitate to recognize in him a providential help sent by God for the
905 30 | written about, was called providentially to a work of reform for
906 21 | superiors of convents and provinces, were exposed to the dangers
907 11 | hands of God, he went to Puglia on a military mission. On
908 23 | taught to the people from the pulpit he insisted on much more
909 35 | attacks by the severest punishments.~
910 10 | to lead them back to the pure ideals of the wisdom of
911 1 | this, they must reject that purely imaginary figure of the
912 1 | this year, which served to purify souls and called so many
913 43 | will they attain this holy purpose if they themselves observe
914 40 | Herald of the Great King, his purposes were directed to persuading
915 14 | thinking of getting married and quickly replied, with some warmth,
916 42 | the Franciscan spirit. To quote Leo XIII: "Concerning the
917 28 | who "seeing him raised so rapidly to a state of intoxication
918 | rather
919 3 | Christian peoples that besides re-establishing purity of faith and of morals
920 2 | admirably assisted him in reaching himself and in rendering
921 23 | among his friars. We may read of this in his famous last
922 32 | women who were willing and ready to give up their conjugal
923 43 | the crucible, have come to realize each day more and more their
924 20 | contempt and abuse and was really saddened thereby. Finally,
925 6 | even going to the length of rebelling against the teachings and
926 6 | the destructive flames of rebellion. If some of these men, in
927 32 | Entire cities of Italy, reborn to a new moral life, placed
928 31 | Heaven saying: "Go Francis, rebuild my house which is falling
929 4 | and practices, to help in recalling to memory on such a timely
930 47 | Our nation, Italy, should receive, through the intercession
931 25 | Catholic Faith and their reception of the sacraments of the
932 34 | consent of one's Minister; the recitation of the canonical hours and
933 32 | of his sons grew beyond reckoning. Such was the enthusiasm
934 46 | pleased them, We repeat and recommend to your pastoral zeal. We
935 15 | Chap. VII) Francis himself, recommending and prescribing for his
936 37 | martyrdom in Syria and Morocco recorded in words of highest praise?
937 11 | Our Lord, he always had recourse to the Gospels as to an
938 6 | is precisely what we see recurring so often in the course of
939 34 | of this new order may be reduced to the following principal
940 8 | desire for riches. These men, regardless of the laws which had been
941 46 | soldiers to do so this year. As regards those who cannot, because
942 45 | who are living together in regular communities and those who
943 28 | similar to his own should reign among his disciples; because
944 1 | While doing this, they must reject that purely imaginary figure
945 43 | the one hand We sincerely rejoice that the Religious of the
946 42 | We have good reasons for rejoicing because We see how through
947 35 | everything in these Rules which relates to the liturgy and to spiritual
948 8 | and the peasants existed relations in every sense of the world
949 27 | induced to give himself any relief or rest, not even when,
950 3 | at the present hour, in remedying the ills of society. In
951 5 | now well on in years will remember the same facts - what love
952 5 | of piety and in a happy renaissance of the spiritual life. We
953 20 | greatest esteem for all men and rendered each man every possible
954 2 | reaching himself and in rendering easy for his neighbors the
955 14 | a wisdom which alone can renew and restore all things.
956 42 | make men take up again with renewed zeal the ancient Francis
957 22 | certainly cannot be said to have renounced all things or to have become
958 46 | greatly pleased them, We repeat and recommend to your pastoral
959 21 | be founded and built. He repeatedly taught his followers, in
960 13 | a poor man, he forthwith repented and felt impelled to go
961 14 | getting married and quickly replied, with some warmth, that
962 26 | this world, he began to repress the demands of his senses
963 43 | to the Three Orders must reproduce in their lives the glorious
964 21 | and even, on occasion, reproved those friars who because
965 23 | should be shown the utmost respect at all times." (Julian a
966 10 | figure, "he shone forth as a resplendent star on a dark night, like
967 27 | give himself any relief or rest, not even when, as during
968 27 | about barefoot, he slept resting his head on a stone or on
969 40 | penance, by his manifold and restless activity for the reformation
970 43 | up in all fervor to the restoration of Christian society.~
971 44 | joy of seeing her children restored to divine grace and to the
972 35 | of the Rules there should result such an order both in public
973 5 | not see why the selfsame results should not crown the coming
974 42 | out on the valley of the Rieti, all spots where Francis
975 1 | Catholic Action," it is only right that Our children who labor
976 42 | mirror of virtue, a path of righteousness, a rule of morals." (Breviary
977 32 | Francis, and there was much ringing of bells, singing of popular
978 39 | treasures of art began to rise, due to the wishes of the
979 2 | almost as if he were the Risen Christ. He has always lived
980 34 | the performing of the last rites for dead members; on the
981 42 | sanctuaries of verdant Umbria, the rocky crags of Verna, the sacred
982 29 | dances and theaters, or who roll in the very mud of voluptuousness,
983 6 | the faith was more deeply rooted in the people, as is proven
984 43 | strengthen its manifold roots with the moisture and sap
985 36 | and, from among whom, some rose even to the glory of sainthood.
986 11 | mysteries of the Cross shone round about him." (Thomas of Celano,
987 46 | Benedict XV in the encyclical Sacra Propediem, wrote to all
988 23 | bring into being the sublime Sacrament of the Lord, should therefore
989 25 | and their reception of the sacraments of the Church; whether they
990 8 | 8. Sad indeed was the fate of the
991 20 | and abuse and was really saddened thereby. Finally, what must
992 36 | rose even to the glory of sainthood. The noblest virtues, too,
993 29 | habitually attempt to strip our saintly heroes of the true light
994 29 | admires the good works of the saints must also distinguish himself
995 19 | much is he and no more, saith the humble St. Francis." (
996 18 | the world." (Opusculum, Salutatio Virtutum, p. 20 et seq.,
997 24 | and, divinely inspired, sanctioned the Rules presented to him.
998 42 | Assisi and the other nearby sanctuaries of verdant Umbria, the rocky
999 10 | of Assisi who, as Dante sang, "shone as the sun" (Paradiso,
1000 39 | engravings, and in mosaics. Thus Santa Maria degli Angeli was built