St. Francis illuminating
the Way to Restoration
"It was in February in the year 1206 that St. Francis, still a layman, paid a visit to a decrepit church on the outskirts of Assisi, Italy. There in prayer an ancient icon of the Crucified Messiah came alive and spoke to him, saying: 'Francis, Francis, go and rebuild My House which as you can see is falling down into ruin.' With these words Christ Our Lord received St. Francis into the service of His Church militant and gave him the vocation and mission to apply an authentic and effective cure to the ills of the Church of all times: infidelity to God, through immorality and dissent: answered by fidelity to God, through penance and faith."
From a very great website.
"It was in February in the year 1206 that St. Francis, still a layman, paid a visit to a decrepit church on the outskirts of Assisi, Italy. There in prayer an ancient icon of the Crucified Messiah came alive and spoke to him, saying: 'Francis, Francis, go and rebuild My House which as you can see is falling down into ruin.' With these words Christ Our Lord received St. Francis into the service of His Church militant and gave him the vocation and mission to apply an authentic and effective cure to the ills of the Church of all times: infidelity to God, through immorality and dissent: answered by fidelity to God, through penance and faith."
From a very great website.
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