[Dialogue] In honor of Pope Francis, Come Walk With Francis . . .

Mon Apr 28 13:19:04 PDT 2025

If you click on "POVERTY"  You can hear Len Dresslar singing.  Scroll down to the words and sing along.
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 POVERTY

Tune: from Brahms' First Symphony, Fourth Movement

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 Come walk with Francis

Like him you’ll  

Naked die

Free all you now cherish

For time soon will

Pass you by

If you would do something  

Then be God’s nothing

Be the Lord’s  

Fool and fife

In holding to naught

there the secret is found

You are wealth

When not by wealth…
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 Bound too by fame? Then

You must leap

O’er that shoal

Your calling’s been written

Upon the  

Ages’ scroll

The mass of most men

Laugh and don’t listen

Say that you’ve

Failed, gone mad

Yet when all seems wrong

You wink and appear gone

Lo, the Lord’s

New face is…
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 Drawn too by surety?

Living is to  

Be unsure

So pour your life wholly

Each burden you  

Will endure

Abound with Paul and  

Run the race and

In fullness

There abase

In all that you do

Make this your song

That all earth

To all men…
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 Belong in the tension

Where life and

Death contend

As bridge to the future

Burn out the flesh

Time did lend

If holiness binds you

Leave it behind you

Such vestments

You must rend

The only defense

In the battle that’s won

Is life-in-depth,

The Kingdom…
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    On Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 11:25:32 AM MST, Ellie Stock via Dialogue <dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:  

  Thanks for the correction, Sharon.  I had St. Francis on my mind when I wrote that . . .  
One Jesuit connection . . . For the last 25 years we have been engaged in a partnership with Peru, working on environmental issues in the Andes related to mining and smelting by a US/St. Louis/NYC-based company.  This partnership included working with then Bishop Pedro Barreto of Huancayo who risked his life to address the harmful effects of mining.  Barreto is also a Jesuit.  He later became Archbishop, the head of Social Justice Work in the area, and then appointed a Cardinal by Pope Francis with whom has worked on environmental concerns, particularly related to mining issues as they affect Indigenous communities and ecology, particularly in the Andes and Amazon. This will be Cardinal Barreto's first Conclave.  He would make a good pope, but I doubt that the next one would also be from Latin America.
Ellieelliestock at aol.com 
    On Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 12:12:55 AM EDT, Sharon Fisher via Dialogue <dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:   

 Thanks for posting, Ellie. One correction: Pope Francis was a Jesuit. The founder of the Jesuits was founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola.  "Pope Francis is “a Jesuit’s Jesuit” who understands the importance of St. Francis of Assisi in the life of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, said the Jesuits’ secretary for the promotion of the faith."
I found such hope from Pope Francis, although everything wasn't to my liking. What a faithful servant. His focus on the poor and those in the margins has been inspirational. I found his calling out Trump's hypocrisy encouraging.
Grace and peace,Sharon
On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 9:48 AM Richard Alton via Dialogue <dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

Thanks, Ellie, a great man,Dick
On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM Ellie Stock via Dialogue <dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

 Dear Friends,
Like so many across the world, we were sorry to hear the news of Pope Francis' death.  Pope Francis, the People's Pope", from Argentina, was the first Franciscan and non-European Pope, who chose the name Francis from St. Francis, who gave up a life a luxury, left his comfortable surrounding and chose a life of poverty and simplicity to serve God.  Pope Francis eschewed the fancy trappings of the Papacy and chose to live a life as simply as possible and to serve by example, sharing a message of universal love and peace, speaking truth to power, lifting up the poor, marginalized, forgotten, the migrant, refugee and imprisoned--saying that "we are all Children of God and called ostentatious displays an osteoporosis of the soul."
Pope Francis was a bold and unrelenting advocate for caring for God's Creation, and his ground-breaking Encyclical on caring for God's Creation, Laudato Si' has been read, studied and used by millions who are trying to address issues of Earth's environmental devastation and climate change. 
In 2023, Pope Francis followed-up Laudate Si' with his Apostolic Exhortation "Laudate Deum", proclaiming once again the environmental/ climate crisis that is upon us.  Links to both of these documents are below and are well worth taking the time to read in     these critical times that call us to care for Earth and all that is in it.
Pope Francis said he wanted to die on the battlefield and. still recovering from pneumonia, he appeared to greet people at the Vatican on        Maundy Thursday, greeting prisoners on Good Friday, making visits on Holy Saturday, and sharing a message and blessing on Easter Sunday.  He lived as a resurrected person and, timely enough, died between Easter and Earth Day.  
We remember and give thanks for an incredible life of faith, compassion, humility, and servanthood.
Grace and peace~
Ellie 
Laudato si' (24 May 2015) | Francis - Vatican
www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/.. 
May 24, 2015 · “LAUDATO SI’, mi’ Signore” – “Praise be to you, my Lord”. In the words of this beautiful canticle, Saint Francis of Assisi reminds us that our common home is like a sister with whom we share our life and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us.
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Laudate Deum: Apostolic Exhortation to all people of good will on the climate crisis, 4 October 2023
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www.vatican.va/.../20231004-laudate-deum.html

Oct 4, 2023 · “Praise God for all his creatures”. This was the message that Saint Francis of Assisi proclaimed by his life, his canticles and all his actions.

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