Paul David Mckay | Create Your Badge
From Servants, Misfits & Martyrs by Howell:
But the scope of that calling (of Francis by Christ in the church building) became evident a couple of years laer when Francis went on pilgimage to Rome. Appearting at Pope Innocent III’s door in tattered clothes, he was turned away by the guard. But that night the pope had a daungint dream. The great Lateran bascila of Saint John, the same grand church Dominic had toured, was teetering, on the verge of crashing to earth–but was being propped up by a mysterious young man, a peasant. The pope recognized him as the one who had been rebuffed the day before. Francis was found, and his new order blessed.
Francis sought in all things to be like Christ. G.K. Chesterton called him a mirror of Christ, in the same way the moon reflects the light of the sun. Christ, being God’s son, may seem too bright, like the sun itself, too holy for us to look at long enough to see our lives in him. But Francis, like the moon, is closer to us, a mere mortal, a bearable reflection of the sun’s light.
