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“The whole point of [St Francis] was that the secret of recovering the natural pleasures lay in regarding them in the light of a supernatural pleasure…The vigil of asceticism which ends in the vision of a natural world made new.”
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Derek Cook
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The Church of the Portiuncula…was where he gathered the little knot of friends and enthusiasts…the adoration of Christ had been a part of the man’s passionate nature for a long time past. But the imitation of Christ, as a sort of plan or ordered scheme of life, may in that sense be said to begin here.
— Feb 21, 2026 05:38AM
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…to this great mystic his religion was not a thing like a theory but a thing like a love-affair.
— Feb 15, 2026 07:48AM
