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Lostinthestars
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First, let me apologize of I’m not in the right subforum, I’m not sure where this question belongs.
I’m trying to find back some short anecdote, possibly related to Saint Francis of Assisi. I thought it was in the Fioretti, but I found a copy of the Fioretti online and skimmed through it, and it doesn’t seem to be there. I read this story more than 20 years ago, and my memory may well have distorted it beyond recognition, so please bear with me. Here is what I remember:
A friar is is in need of some worldly good – in my memory it’s a writing box or a writing desk – but he can’t afford it because the order is too poor. He’s so tormented by his need for this object that he asks Saint Francis for advice. Francis (or whoever it was) tells him to ask God to grant him what he needs. The friar objects that he is not going to pray to God for such a futile motive. Saint Francis answers, in substance “who do you think you are to decide, in place of God, what is too small to ask”?
Does this sound familiar to someone?
I’m trying to find back some short anecdote, possibly related to Saint Francis of Assisi. I thought it was in the Fioretti, but I found a copy of the Fioretti online and skimmed through it, and it doesn’t seem to be there. I read this story more than 20 years ago, and my memory may well have distorted it beyond recognition, so please bear with me. Here is what I remember:
A friar is is in need of some worldly good – in my memory it’s a writing box or a writing desk – but he can’t afford it because the order is too poor. He’s so tormented by his need for this object that he asks Saint Francis for advice. Francis (or whoever it was) tells him to ask God to grant him what he needs. The friar objects that he is not going to pray to God for such a futile motive. Saint Francis answers, in substance “who do you think you are to decide, in place of God, what is too small to ask”?
Does this sound familiar to someone?