St. Valentine's Day
"Tell me, I pray you, where does she dwell, my Lady Poverty? Where does she dine, and where does she lie down at noon, for I am faint with love for her?" --Sacrum Commercium, 9
The Sacrum Commercium is an "allegory offering insights into Francis's vision of poverty." It is an "exhortation written to encourage Francis's followers to live in an authentic way the saint's biblical vision of poverty." It reminds me of the Song of Solomon only there the allegory uses people to show what God's love looks like. Here the personification of poverty is used to express how we are to love God. Jesus used allergories all the time to get his message across. Stories have a way of opening our hearts and minds to hear truths we might otherwise overlook or ignore.
"Tell me, I pray you, where does she dwell, my Lady Poverty? Where does she dine, and where does she lie down at noon, for I am faint with love for her?" --Sacrum Commercium, 9
The Sacrum Commercium is an "allegory offering insights into Francis's vision of poverty." It is an "exhortation written to encourage Francis's followers to live in an authentic way the saint's biblical vision of poverty." It reminds me of the Song of Solomon only there the allegory uses people to show what God's love looks like. Here the personification of poverty is used to express how we are to love God. Jesus used allergories all the time to get his message across. Stories have a way of opening our hearts and minds to hear truths we might otherwise overlook or ignore.
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