The bishop is, predictably, not impressed by their request.
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FRANCIS ! . . Francis, Francis, Francis . . POPE Francis, Francis
the man of Oct. 4, patron of ecology, fuzzy rabbits, and chocolate
Easter eggs.
But who WAS the “Poverello” anyway? My favourite depiction of
him is wearing HIS brown ragged tunic, with a cut-a-away
showing the wound of the spear in his side, besides the holes
of the nails in his hands a feet. ( artist: Cimbue ?)
However, WHERE has anyone SAID anything significant
about him? In my own reading, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
sure did, as did her confessor, St. Claude de la Colombière,
and, after the institution of the Feast by Rome, the Polish
Hierarchy were the first to compose a Liturgy around it,
and, “down the road apiece”, a young Fr. Wojtyla —later
Pope John Paul II —always prayed before an altar of
the Sacred Heart. His meditations on each of the
invocations of the Litany of the Sacred Heart, are well-
worth contemplating. OK . . the historical facts follow:
On Oct.4, 1673, (having made her simple Vows) Christ
gave St. Francis of Assisi to Margaret AS HER LIFELONG
GUIDE. In her own words:
“On the feast of St. Francis, our Lord let me see in prayer
—after holy Communion —this great saint. Clad in a
garment of light and unspeakable brilliance. He had been
raised above the other saints to an extra-ordinarily high
degree of glory, BECAUSE his life was so like that of the
suffering Redeemer who is the life of our souls and the
love of our hearts. His glory was the reward of his love
of the Passion of our Lord, a love which rendered him
worthy of the sacred stigmata, and made him one of the
favourites of Jesus’ Heart. By a very special favour he has
been given great power, in applying to the faithful, the
merits of the precious blood, a power which made him
in a sense the mediator of this treasure.
After I had seen all this, the Divine Bridegroom, as a
token of his love, gave me St.Francis as my soul’s guide.
He was to lead me through all the pains and sufferings
that awaited me [ in promoting this NEW feast of the Sacred
Heart of Jesus . . in a Catholic Culture which had grown
COLD because heavily influenced by Jansenism, where
love of God didn’t EVEN factor in, in Liturgical devotion.
Excessive SERVILE FEAR did.]
—A. Hamon, Vie de la Bienheureuse Marguerite-Marie,1908,
Paris: Gabriel Beauchesne & Cie, p.125/ quoted by Timothy
T. O’Donnell, S.T.D. in HEART OF THE REDEEMER, Ignatius
Press, foreward by John A. Hardon, S.J.,1992, p.128.
Pope Francis has gone to the other extreme. Servile fear for
him would belong to his category of “rigid”. Even unrepentant
serious sin, SEEN AS SUCH, is “rigid”, as if in sync with Martin
Luther’s famous dictum: “Sin as much as you want, but
BELIEVE more!”