Chapter XLII That he did humbly procure flesh-meats for the sick and admonished them to be patient TheBlessed Francis was not ashamed to obtain flesh-meats for a sick
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Chapter XLII That he did humbly procure flesh-meats for the sick and admonished them to be patient TheBlessed Francis was not ashamed to obtain flesh-meats for a sick
brother among the public places of the cities, but he did admonish
them that lay sick to bear any deficiency therein patiently, and not to get up and make a grievance thereof whenever they could not be fully satisfied. Whence in the first Rule he made be written thus: “I beseech my brethren that in their infirmities they be not wrath nor troubled, either against God or against the brethren, and that they be not too solicitous to ask for medicines, nor too desirous to relieve this flesh that so soon must die, which is the enemy of the soul, but that they give thanks for all things and desire to be such as God would have them be, for them that God hath fore-ordained unto eternal life He teacheth by the stings of scourges and infirmities, even as He himself saith: ‘Them that I love do I rebuke and chasten.’”