St. Francis of Assisi

The answer God promises to give to you or me will be unique to each of us.

From the depth of St. Francis' relationship with God, he intuited a profound understanding of the human ego.

Life is change. But it is not antithetical to what came before, it is not a negation of that, or an elimination of it. In some ways, it might be a building upon it.

Thomas of Celano, an early friar and author of three hagiographies of Francis, wrote that the saint “burned with a love that came from his whole being for the sacrament of the Lord’s body.”

Francis knew that idolatry was the key sin in the Old Testament.

“He who has persevered to the end will be saved.”