An American tourist in Jerusalem met up with one of the Holy Land Custody friars. The friar offered to show him around the monastery of which he was a part. On their tour they came to the friar’s room; the tourist noticed no TV or radio, only one change of clothes, a towel and a blanket. He asked, “How do you live so simply?” The monk answered, “I noticed you have only enough things to fill a suitcase; why do you live so simply?” To which the tourist replied, “But I’m just a tourist, I’m only traveling through.” To which the friar said, “So am I, so am I.”
“Adoring and seeing the Lord God living and true” is the destination that Francis picked and then chose a road to journey there. On the journey he saw the God living and true in all creation.
Admonition Sixteen: Cleanness of Heart
1 Blessed are the clean in heart, for they will see God.
2 The truly clean of heart are those who look down on earthly things, seeks those of heaven, and, with a clean heart and spirit, never cease adoring and seeing the Lord God living and true.
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