A Prayer of Praise
"We thank you
that through your Son you created us,
and that through the holy love you had for us
you brought about his birth
as true God and true man
by the glorious, ever-virgin, most blessed, holy Mary,
and that you willed to redeem us captives
through his cross and blood and death." --St. Francis, Rule of 1221, Chapter XXIII
That God would deign to come to earth, in the form of man, is rather astonishing. When we "walk in the shoes" of another so that we can identify with them in order to help them, we are showing them what God did for us and has done for them.
"We thank you
that through your Son you created us,
and that through the holy love you had for us
you brought about his birth
as true God and true man
by the glorious, ever-virgin, most blessed, holy Mary,
and that you willed to redeem us captives
through his cross and blood and death." --St. Francis, Rule of 1221, Chapter XXIII
That God would deign to come to earth, in the form of man, is rather astonishing. When we "walk in the shoes" of another so that we can identify with them in order to help them, we are showing them what God did for us and has done for them.
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