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How Virtue Drives Out Vice

Francis of Assisi, Francis of Assisi poetry, Christian, Christian poetry, Catholic poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry,  poetry by Francis of Assisi
(1181 - 1226) Timeline

English version by
Regis J. Armstrong, OFM CAP & Ignatius C. Brady, OFM

Original Language
Italian

Christian : Catholic
13th Century

Where there is charity and wisdom
     there is neither fear nor ignorance.
Where there is patience and humility,
     there is neither anger nor disturbance.
Where there is poverty with joy,
     there is neither covetousness nor avarice.
Where there is inner peace and meditation,
     there is neither anxiousness nor dissipation.
Where there is fear of the Lord to guard the house,
     there the enemy cannot gain entry.
Where there is mercy and discernment,
     there is neither excess nor hardness of heart.

 

 

-- from Francis and Clare: The Complete Works: The Classics of Western Spirituality, Translated by Regis J. Armstrong, OFM CAP / Translated by Ignatius C. Brady, OFM

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Themes

  Bliss
  Heart
  Smile
 
 


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All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time, by Robert Ellsberg
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For Lovers of God Everywhere: Poems of the Christian Mystics, by Roger Housden
Francis and Clare: The Complete Works: The Classics of Western Spirituality, Translated by Regis J. Armstrong, OFM CAP / Translated by Ignatius C. Brady, OFM
Francis of Assisi: A Revolutionary Life , by Adrian House

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