GRACE IN HUMILITY=Saint Francis of Assisi
Today is the MEMORIAL=to Saint Francis of Assisi=a man
Of such HUMILITY=many think=He is the CLOSEST TO Christ
Who ever lived=He walked the earth as a man=with the GRACE
Of God=and became a HUMBLE SAINT=”Behold =I am of LITTLE
ACCOUNT=What can I answer you?=I put my hand over my
mouth”
Job 40:4
When we think of Saint Francis=we think of wild life=We
think
Of animals=We think of the canticles of CREATION=He PREACHED
To the birds=He befriended wolves=But he was a man of GRACE
Like Christ=and steeled in TOTAL HUMILITY
He was the SON of a rich man=But he dressed in rags=and
BEFRIENDED
The poor and the lepers=We would do well to EMULATE the
love=
Saint Francis lived with=to live with that same GRACE IN
HUMILITY
“You are=the most excellent of men=and your lips have been
anointed=
WITH GRACE=since God has blessed you forever”
Psalm 45:2
“For the law=was given through Moses=GRACE and truth came
Through Jesus Christ”
John 1:17
“Now I commit you to God=and to the word=of his GRACE=which
Can build you up=and give you an inheritance=among those who
are
Sanctified”
Acts 20:32
Francis was a HUMBLE MAN=a man who=LOVED TO SERVE=and to
HELP OTHERS=to HEAL this broken world=we all live in=He is
noted for
His plainness and his SIMPLICITY=yet people could see the
SAINTLINESS
In him=He was a man of grace in HUMILITY=A HUMBLE SAINT
“Wisdom’s instruction=is to fear the Lord=AND HUMILITY comes
before
Honor”
Proverbs 15:33
“BY THE HUMILITY=and gentleness of Christ=I appeal to
you--------I Paul=
Who am “timid”=when face to face with you=But “BOLD” toward
you
When away!”
2 Corinthians 10:1
“Do nothing=out of selfish ambition=or vain conceit=rather
IN HUMILITY
Value others=above yourselves=Not looking to your own
interests=but each of
You=to the interests of others” Philippians
2:3-4
There is a GRACE=when we live IN TRUE HUMILITY=Like Saint
Francis did=
BEING LITTLE=can make you BIG=in the EYES of God=It can even
make you a SAINT=
Like Saint Francis=A GRACE IN OUR HUMILITY
“In the same way=You who are younger=submit yourselves=to
your elders=
All of you=clothe yourself=WITH HUMILITY=toward one
another=because
‘God opposes the proud=but shows favor to THE HUMBLE’”
1 Peter 5:5
Today=Let us HONOR Saint Francis of Assisi=who showed GRACE
IN HIS HUMILITY=THE HUMILITY OF JESUS CHRIST
In Jesus’ name=and IN the name of our EVER HUMBLE Holy
Father God=who is forever
Living and loving
Robert P. Wallman
10-3-2024 and 10-04-2026
Ps INSPIRED=by
an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE=by Dcn. Greg Kandra
