FROM GOSPEL TO LIFE - FROM LIFE TO GOSPEL
The Rule, Article 4







Friday, September 17, 2010

Admonition XXVI LET SERVANTS OF GOD HONOR THE CLERGY

Blessed is the servant who has faith in the clergy who live uprightly according to the rite of the Roman Church. 

Woe to those who look down upon them; for even though they be sinners, no one should judge them because the Lord alone reserves judgment on them to Himself. For just as their ministry is greater in its concerns for the most holy Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, which they receive and they alone administer to others, so those who sin against them commit more of a sin than (if they had sinned) against all other persons in this world.

Saint Francis of Assisi


Source: St. Francis of Assisi, The Saint, Early Documents, New City Press

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