 "Franciscanism is sometimes called an alternative orthodoxy because it invites us all to sit at God's One Abundant Table, while much of the Christian tradition has set a scarce table for very few. The Church too often assumed that people were very simple and so we had to make the laws complex to protect them from themselves. Jesus and Francis recognized that people are endlessly diverse, complex and mysterious, and we had best make the law very simple. Just love your neighbour exactly as you love yourself." Surely it can't be that simple? Do we accept that simplicity or do we try to make life and faith complex to cover all possibilities. |
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Quotation from "Gateway to Silence" by Richard Rohr
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