A Quote From Francis de Sales

This morning, a few of us met on Zoom to do morning prayers together, using a modern prayer book called Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals (not to be confused with the Anglican Book of Common Prayer). I highly recommend using it as a way to provide a set prayer time that will guide you to a more grounded well-being and a development for concern of others. You can download it on Apple (I think) and Android (that, I'm certain of).

Each morning prayer will have a wonderful, thought-provoking quote from Christians of different traditions, in different times to push you towards a more Sermon-on-the-Mount-way of life. Here's today's quote:

Francis de Sales, a sixteenth-century bishop in France, wrote, "Love the poor and love poverty, for it is by such love that we become truly poor. As the Scripture says, we become like things we love. If you love the poor you will share their poverty and be poor like them. If you love the poor be often with them. Be glad to see them in your own home and to visit them in theirs. Be glad to talk to them and be pleased to have them near you in church, on the street, and elsewhere. Be poor in conversing with them and speak to them as their companions do, but be rich in assisting them by sharing some of your more abundant goods with them.

Amen.

Claiborne, S., Okoro, E., Wilson-Hartgrove, J. (2010). Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.