Saint Francis of Assisi normal be ready at all times

be ready at all times to answer for it

” These words from the Imitation of Christ might well have been the motto of Thérèse of the Child Jesus

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its growth stunted

He had sat on his island away from the tides that had washed the world

Saint Francis of Assisi normal be ready at all timesBy Johannes Jrgensen At the beginning of his classic biography of le jongleur de dieu, G. K. Chesterton sets forth three ways in which a sketch of St. Francis of Assisi in modern English may be written. First, the author may deal with this great and most amazing man as a figure in secular history and a model of social virtues; second, he may go to the opposite extreme, andbe defiantly devotional; and thirdby the ordinary routehe may try to use what is