29/09/2025
Usapang Puso with San Francisco
All of us (if not most) is in search of perfect. Perfect joy doesn’t come from what we achieve or gain in life. St. Francis teaches that real joy is found in how we face our daily struggles. When we carry our difficulties with patience, kindness, and a joyful heart—remembering the sufferings of Jesus and uniting ourselves with Him—we discover perfect joy. It may be simple, but it isn’t easy: true joy means accepting our own cross and walking with Christ in love.
“If, when we shall arrive at St Mary of the Angels, all drenched with rain and trembling with cold, all covered with mud and exhausted from hunger; if, when we knock at the convent-gate, the porter should come angrily and ask us who we are; if, after we have told him, ‘We are two of the brethren’, he should answer angrily, ‘What ye say is not the truth; ye are but two impostors going about to deceive the world, and take away the alms of the poor; begone I say’; if then he refuse to open to us, and leave us outside, exposed to the snow and rain, suffering from cold and hunger till nightfall – then, if we accept such injustice, such cruelty and such contempt with patience, without being ruffled and without murmuring, believing with humility and charity that the porter really knows us, and that it is God who maketh him to speak thus against us, write down, O Brother Leo, that this is perfect joy…” - St. Francis of Assisi
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- How do I understand the connection between suffering and joy in my own life?
- What small step can I take today to accept life’s challenges with a more joyful and trusting heart?
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