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Francis of
Assisi,
Love in action
Some mediunic
sources make
mention of being
Francis, in past
reincarnation,
the apostle John
the Evangelist,
that really,
already in that
time, it
possessed the
power to love
He was born in
Assisi, Italy,
in September 26,
1181, and died
in 1226. It was
canonized in
1228, two years
after his
dissolution,
when it passed
to be considered
one saint. It
was proclaimed,
in 1979, Patron
Saint of the
Environmentalists,
due to the fact
of he being a
great admirer of
the nature and
for the intense
and devoted love
to the animals.
Poet, sang the
Sun, the Moon
and the stars.
It was a
cheerful, suit,
simple, loving,
peace creature
and of well,
gaining esteem,
consideration
and sympathy. He
loved Jesus and
his mother,
Maria,
intensely. On
October 4 it is
commemorated his
day.
Still young,
penetrating in a
Catholic temple,
in ruins,
looking at
Jesus' image, in
the altar, he
heard the same
tell him: -
"Francis,
restores my
decadent
house."
Taking in the
literal sense
the words, it
began a work of
reform of the
small church,
not
assimilating, in
the moment,
Christ's
transcendental
prophetic
message, which
referred to the
lamentable state
in that it was
the Christianity
("my house"),
completely
distanced of the
redeeming
Gospel, first
base of Jesus'
true
Christianity.
Truly, the
religious
decadence is
observed
whenever the
love is par
excellence
despised in
exchange for the
material values.
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Francis,
denominated of
"Il Poverello",
("the little
poor") it was
simple and
humble man, as
well as Christ,
to who loved
hotly. It was a
true Christian,
concerned with
his fellow
creature,
totally
dissociated of
the power of the
vanity and of
the pride. He
refused
ownerships and,
same toiling in
the Catholicism,
discharged the
ecclesiastical
orders and
sacred
promotions,
never becoming
if a priest.
The restoration
that the Master
wants is
accomplished in
our interior,
living the
religious
practice, under
the aegis of the
evangelical
teachings,
knowing that the
spiritual
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("salvation")
peace is
conquered,
through
the
steady
exercise
of the
love and
of the
fraternity,
without
the
concern
of
gaining
personal
advantages.
In
Christ's
Christianity,
personified
by
Francisco,
it
cannot
have
interests
of
financial
order,
"giving
away
what
free
received."
In the
men's
Christianity
the
temporary
power,
the
exuberance
of the
religious
temples
prevails
and of
the
rituals,
the
mercantilism,
recriminated
by
Jesus,
shouting
that you
didn't
do a den
of
thieves
of the
Father's
House
(Mathew
21:
12-13),
the
dogmatism,
squandering
the
truth
that
frees
and
restricting
the
spiritual
essence
to
overcome
human
concepts. |
Francis, among
the three
virtues: the
faith, the hope
and the charity,
emphasized the
charity as the
most excellent
"Il Poverello"
practiced in all
the moments the
Jesus’ Gospel,
giving food to
the starving
ones, satiating
the ones that
were thirsty,
accommodating
the outsiders,
dressing the
nudes, visiting
the patients and
the prisoners
(Mathew 25: 36).
It lived the
love in
fullness,
obeying the
largest
commandment: To
"love God on all
the things and
to the neighbor
as to himself",
knowing that the
whole law and
the prophets are
contained in
that commandment
(Mathew 22:
36-40).
Francis, among
the three
virtues: the
faith, the hope
and the charity,
emphasized the
charity as the
most excellent,
ratifying
Paulo's teaching
(1st Letter to
the Corinthians,
13: 13). Nobody
like him, really
attested that
"out of the
charity there is
no salvation" ("OESE",
nº15: 8). In the
Good Samaritan’s
Parable, the
Master, put of
side, in the
salvation, until
the priesthood,
mentioning a man
without
religiosity, as
fortunate,
because, humble
and charitable,
it aided the man
released in the
road. Even
without being
religious, it
was granted by
Jesus as safe,
deserving the
denomination of
true Christian,
because for the
action of the
will he made the
good.
The Saint of
Assisi, in
agreement with
Sermon on the
Mount (Mathew 5:
1-12), as poor
in spirit, he
became the
possessor of
Kingdom of the
Skies; it
consoled the
afflicted ones
of all the
shades; tame par
excellence, with
wide capacity to
inherit the
earth; satisfied
for having
hunger and
headquarters of
justice; happy
for being
merciful, pure
of heart and
prosecutor of
the peace. All
the received
insults, the
flung slanders
and the suffered
persecutions,
because of the
work with the
Master, turned
him an authentic
Christian,
deserving the
due to reward in
the spiritual
dimension.
Some mediunic
sources make
mention of he
being Francisco,
in past
reincarnation,
the apostle John
The Evangelist.
Really, in that
time, it already
possessed the
power to love in
exuberance, then
it was
denominated of
"loved
disciple", since
Christ loved all
without
distinction.
What made the
difference was
John's fact it
was the
developed of the
disciples.
The Evangelist
was present in
all the
important events
related to the
Master, besides
in the crucial
moment of the
crucifixion. In
the last supper,
it was seated
beside Christ,
in a privileged
position (In
their last
moments in the
meat, Francisco
asked for us to
read the
evangelical
texts
corresponding to
the Last
Supper).
Francis of
Assisi, like
John Evangelist,
was one of the
high spiritual
benefactors of
the Spirit
Codification
John was
responsible for
Maria's life,
after Jesus'
dissolution,
(That detail
maybe elucidates
the adoration
exalts of
Francisco of
Assisi to the
Master's mother,
with whom lived
very difficult
moments, living
the personality
of the
Evangelist close
to the
crucifixion).
When it was
necessary the
support, Christ
summoned him
with Pedro and
Tiago (Assisi'
saint was bearer
of several
mediunic
talents). He
participated
actively of the
apostolic
school, being
the last to die.
Five of the
books of the New
Will were of his
plowing: the
Fourth Gospel,
three epistles
and the
Apocalypse.
As own John,
Jesus had
affirmed that
the Evangelist
would be alive,
that is, active,
at that time of
the ostensible
turn of Christ
to the humanity,
what would not
happen with the
other disciples
(John 21:21-23).
Really, The
promised
consoler
(Spirit
Codification),
appearing in
France, it
received the
blessing from
having as one of
their largest
instructors,
exactly, John
Evangelista.
Francis’
Christian name
was Giovanni di
Pietro
Bernardone (John
Bernardone).
Therefore, it
received from
his mother,
acting for
intuition,
John's name,
which, later, it
was substituted
by the father by
Francisco, in
honor to France.
In Assisi, the
boy it was known
like Francis, in
other words, the
"small French."
Francis of
Assisi, having
been John
Evangelist, it
was one of the
high spiritual
benefactors of
the
codification,
systematized by
Allan Kardec,
and he left us
some very deep
messages, as
published it in
the “Revue
Spirite” of
December of 1864
(Commemorative
Session in the
Society of
Paris): "The
love is the law
of the Spiritism;
he dilates the
heart and he
makes to love
actively those
that disappear
in the vacancy
twilight of the
grave. The
Spiritism is not
a vain sound,
fallen of the
mortal lips and
that a blow
takes; it is the
strong and
severe law that
he proclaimed
Moses in Monte
Sinai, the law
that they
affirmed the
drunk martyrs of
hope, the law
that discussed
the restless
philosophers,
and that,
finally, the
spirits come to
proclaim.
Spiritualistic!
Jesus' great
name should
float, as a
flag, above your
teachings.
Before you went,
Salvador brought
the revelation
in his breast,
and his word,
advisably
measure,
indicated each
one of the
stages that will
travel today.
The mysteries
pulled down to
the prophetic
blow that it
affects your
intelligences,
as formerly the
walls of
Jericho."
Pace’s Prayer,
known
internationally
and attributed
to Francis of
Assisi, it is of
ignored origin
In the “Revue
Spirite” of
1863, the
apostle John
emphasizes that
"arrived the
hour in that the
Spiritism should
rejuvenate and
to vivify the
own essence of
the
Christianity."
Like this he
proceeded, when
it lived the
firm and
decisive
personality of
Francisco of
Assis.
Pace's Prayer,
known
internationally,
it was
attributed to
Francis of
Assisi. However,
it origin is
ignored, having
been written,
firstly, in
1912, in a
spiritual
bulletin
published in
Paris. Then, in
1916, in Rome, a
leaf appeared,
bringing printed
the prayer and
an image of the
saint. Although
the work
captures the
saint's spirit
and his text
seems to be of
him, it was not
found in their
belongings and
it is not of his
authorship.
Being,
therefore,
anonymous, we
believed that
his source is
spiritual,
having been
composed, by
mediumship, for
him own or for
one of their
followers.
Francis of
Assisi, through
Chico Xavier's
second sight,
left the
following
message, on
August 17, 1951,
in Pedro
Leopoldo, MG.:
(...) The
Master's calvary
was not so only
constituted of
dryness and
roughness... Of
the stony and
sad hill they
gushed sources
of water lives
that quench
thirst of
the centuries’
soul. And the
flowers that
blossomed in the
thief's
understanding
and in the
women's from
Jerusalem
anguish they
crossed the
time, becoming
blessed fruits
of happiness in
the barn of the
nations.
Picks the roses
of the road in
the bramble bush
of the
testimonies...
stores the
invisible coins
of the love in
the temple of
the heart!...
strengthen
the virile
vitality, in
contact with the
divine dew of
the gratitude
and of the
kindness!...
However, don't
stop. Walk!...
It is necessary
to ascend.
Indispensable
the itinerary of
the elevation,
with the
personal
sacrifice for
norm of all of
the instants.
Remember you, He
was alone! Alone
he announced and
alone it
suffered. But
erect, in the
middle of the
solitude, in the
painful log for
devotement to
the humanity, he
turned into
Eternal
Resurrection.
Don't take
another
guideline or
else the one
always. To go
down, aiding, to
arise with the
exaltation of
the Mister.
Everything to
give to receive
with abundance.
Nothing to ask
for ours ME
exclusionist, so
that we can find
the glorious US
of the immortal
life. To be the
concordance for
the separation.
To be light for
the shadows,
fraternity for
the destruction,
tenderness for
the hate,
humility for the
pride, blessing
for the
curse...
Always loves. It
is for the grace
of the love that
the Master
persists with
us, beggars of
the millennia,
spilling the
sublime clarity
of the celestial
pardon where we
created the hell
of the evil and
of the
suffering.
The Gospel is
our Eternal Code
and Jesus is our
imperishable
Master
When the silence
if does more
weighed around
of your steps,
it sharpens the
ears and he
listens. His
voice will
resound again in
the acoustics of
your soul and
the great words,
that the
centuries didn't
turn off, they
will return
clearer to the
circle of your
hope, so that
your wounds if
they convert in
roses and so
that your
fatigue if
transubstantiate
in victory.
The afflicted
and tormented
flock shouts for
refuge and
safety. What
will of old
human Jerusalem
be without the
shepherd's
providential
bass string that
peeps at the
movements of the
sky for the
defense of the
fold?
It is necessary
that the fire of
the cross is
relighted, that
the sparkle of
the truth glows
again, that the
directions of
the decisive
liberation are
drawn. The
intelligence
without love is
the infernal
genius that
drags the people
now to the
currents’ dark,
and terrifying
of the abyss.
The exalted
brain doesn't
find help in the
brutalized
heart. The
wayward culture
of the time in
that we hike,
relegated to the
affliction, he
threatens all of
the services of
the Good New, in
their more
intimate
foundations.
Dreadful ruins
will smoke, for
right, on the
stately palaces
of the human
greatness,
lacking of
humility and the
cold wind of the
disillusion will
blow, of tough,
on the castles
killed of the
dominance that,
wild if it
exhibits,
without
cogitating of
the imperishable
and supreme
interests of the
spirit.
It is
indispensable
the ascension.
The true light
comes from the
highest and only
that settles in
the superior
plan, still same
covered with
wounds and
gnawed of worms,
can, with
reason, to
clarify the
redeeming path
that the wrong
generations
forgot.
Redo the
exhausted
energies and
turn to the home
of our communion
and of our
thoughts.
The faithful
worker
perseveres in
the fight
sanctifying
until the end.
The light of the
angry ocean is
always a star in
solitude. He
illuminates the
highway, looking
for the Master's
lamp that never
lacked us.
Moves forward...
Let us move
forward...
Christ in us,
with us, for us
and in our
favor, and the
Christianity
that we needed
to relive ahead
of the storms,
of whose
darkness will be
born the
splendor of the
Third
Millennium."
Certainly, the
apostolate is
everything. The
task transcends
the picture of
our
understanding.
Let us don't
demand
explanations.
Let us try to
serve. He fits
us just to obey
until that his
glory is the
throne forever
in the
flagellated soul
of the world.
It proceeds,
therefore,
embittered him
road of the
passion for the
very divine,
trusting to the
incessant
perspiration for
the final
victory.
The Gospel is
our Eternal
Code. Jesus is
our Imperishable
Master. Let us
arise, in the
company Of him,
in the hard and
rough rail.
Now it is still
the night that
becomes torn in
thunders and
shadows,
scaring,
whipping,
torturing,
destroying...
Though, Christ
reigns and
tomorrow we will
contemplate the
celestial to
wake up."
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