Saint Francis Christmas

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Saint Francis, who had lived a life of penance and fasting, told his brothers on Christmas Day: "We are not to fast on the day the Lord is born to us." Even in the greatest poverty, Francis understood that this day should be one of rejoicing at the coming of the divine Child.

Francisco marvels and celebrates the mysteries of God; Thus it is that Saint Francis was moved by the hardships that the Virgin Mary went through on the night of the Nativity (cf. 1Cel 200), for this reason he wished that at Christmas “even the walls eat meat” and that “the rich give food in abundance to the poor and hungry and that oxen and donkeys have more fodder and grass than usual ”. "Let everyone throw wheat and grain along the roads, so that on such a great solemnity the birds also have food in abundance" (2Cel 200).

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