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<blockquote>In all your sermons you shall tell the people of the need to do penance, impressing on them that no one can be saved unless he receives the Body and the Blood of our Lord.<ref>Saint Francis, “The Letter to all the Superiors of the Friars Minor,” quoted in Andrew T. McCarthy, ''Francis of Assisi as Artist of the Spiritual Life'' (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2010), p. 210.</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>In all your sermons you shall tell the people of the need to do penance, impressing on them that no one can be saved unless he receives the Body and the Blood of our Lord.<ref>Saint Francis, “The Letter to all the Superiors of the Friars Minor,” quoted in Andrew T. McCarthy, ''Francis of Assisi as Artist of the Spiritual Life'' (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2010), p. 210.</ref></blockquote> | ||
We accept that the communion wine and wafer is charged by Jesus Christ with the power of Alpha and Omega, as he says in the beginning of the Book of Revelation, “Lo, I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending.” Therefore, in this tangible ritual and by the use of this substance we do receive that light essence of Jesus. | We accept that the communion wine and wafer is charged by Jesus Christ with the power of Alpha and Omega, as he says in the beginning of the [[Book of Revelation]], “Lo, I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending.” Therefore, in this tangible ritual and by the use of this substance we do receive that light essence of Jesus. | ||
Saint Francis had his own concept of penance, broader than the modern usage of the term, and those who have studied his writings have noted that his concept is in keeping with the original meaning of the word in the Greek, metanoia, which means a turning of the heart to God, a renunciation of self and a complete giving of oneself to the will of God. | Saint Francis had his own concept of penance, broader than the modern usage of the term, and those who have studied his writings have noted that his concept is in keeping with the original meaning of the word in the Greek, metanoia, which means a turning of the heart to God, a renunciation of self and a complete giving of oneself to the will of God. | ||