Ashes of Peace

Brother Francis said: “My Crucified Christ, I would like, for just a moment, to climb that Cross, remove those nails and lie there in your place.”

“I would like to embrace the world from on high, love all humankind, to love and suffer for them. Tonight, I would like to cover the world with the cloak of peace, gather all the tatters and tumors of their children and erect an altar with that matter in the center of the world and reduce it to a final holocaust so that only the ashes of peace lie on the ground of happiness.”

“Tonight, I would like all the ships at sea to navigate on the winds of Love. I want to burn in the pyre of pain so that only Love remains. And afterwards, everything could come to an end, because we would have arrived at the summit of the resurrection.”

From the book “Brother Francis of Assisi” by Father Ignacio Larrañaga