The Blessed Mother said,
My soul doth magnify the Lord and my spirit has rejoiced in God my savior... and Holy is His Name.
She never had it in her to say such a thing as what he says. Never. Nope not ever. Francis tries to pull apart a boy's praying hands for no apparent reason. What is going on here ?
She never had it in her to say such a thing -- is right.
And no pope in the history of the Church would have gotten away with this.
He has chosen the name Francis after the Seraphic Father, the first stigmatist in the history of Holy Mother Church, a man who was called "father" even though he wasn't a priest! But this pope has ALMOST nothing in common with St. Francis. They're both men, after all!
They can both talk.
But imagine Pope Francis saying ANY ONE of these things, like this:
Words of St. Francis of Assisi:
“O Divine Master, grant that I may not seek to be consoled, as to console. To be understood, as to understand. To be loved, as to love. For it is in giving that we receive. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”
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“Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.”
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“The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.”
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“Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
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“We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.”
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“While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.”
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“I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.”
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“My dear and beloved Brother, the treasure of blessed poverty is so very precious and divine that we are not worthy to possess it in our vile bodies. For poverty is that heavenly virtue by which all earthy and transitory things are trodden under foot, and by which every obstacle is removed from the soul so that it may freely enter into union with the eternal Lord God. It is also the virtue which makes the soul, while still here on earth, converse with the angels in Heaven. It is she who accompanied Christ on the Cross, was buried with Christ in the Tomb, and with Christ was raised and ascended into Heaven, for even in this life she gives to souls who love her the ability to fly to Heaven, and she alone guards the armor of true humility and charity.”
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“Every day He humbles Himself just as He did when from from His heavenly throne into the Virgin's womb; every day He comes to us and lets us see Him in lowliness, when He descends from the bosom of the Father into the hands of the priest at the altar.”
“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.”
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“Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received ― only what you have given.”
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“Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
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“We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.”
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“Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and can be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.”
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“Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
when there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
Grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand,
to be loved as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying [to ourselves] that we are born to eternal life.”
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“We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer.”
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“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
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“A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.”
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