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Those few friends and family members who stayed behind and perhaps risked their own lives for the sake of their friend and Lord have denied themselves to follow Jesus.
Paradise, or the kingdom, is also a reality that is not off in some distant future, but is, as Jesus says, here “with me today.”
After Francis’ death, Bonaventure will talk about the “transformative power of love.” Love is what moved the heart and mind of the saint from Assisi, and it is love that is the greatest force for change and good in our world.
Evangelical joyfulness is simply another way to call the experience of living with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, patience, forgiveness, love, and thanksgiving.
St. Francis knew that to see ourselves as we truly are is to look at ourselves with the eyes of God.
Like Francis of Assisi, each of us journeys along the pilgrimage of life, being shaped in little unseen ways.
Mystics through the centuries have described their passionate and intense experiences of God in prayer as though God were a lover.
