The Passion: Saint Francis’s Ordinary Subject of Meditation

One should not be surprised that Saint Francis spoke only of the Cross; it was his highest and most sublime Philosophy. All objects presented him with its image: he could not see lambs being led to the slaughter without at the same time recalling the most gentle and most innocent Lamb, JESUS CHRIST, who had been put to death in order to give life to sinners. And filled with compassion for these poor animals, which were its figure, he even gave up his cloak to ransom them.

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