For love of you; through those who endure
Sickness and trial.
Happy those who endure in peace,
By you, Most High, they will be crowned.
All praise be yours, my Lord, through Sister Death,
From whose embrace no mortal can escape.
Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
Happy those She finds doing your will!
The second death can do no harm to them.
Praise and bless my Lord, and give him thanks,
And
serve him with great humility.
Because Pope Francis' parents had left Italy for Argentina, perhaps it is not surprising that he feels attracted by the St. Francis of Assisi.
Incidentally, Chesterton, mentioned above, wrote a biography of St. Francis of Assisi that, in my estimate, is still worth reading.
Now, because Pope Francis is a Jesuit, he made two 30-day retreats in silence following the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit order in the Roman Catholic Church.
In the book titled The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius Loyola (1992), George E. Ganss, S.J., provides an English translation and commentary. The books consists of instructions for undertaking so-called Spiritual Exercises -- that is, imagistic meditations in which one uses one imagination. In effect, because of the instructions provided in the book, one meditations could be described as guided meditations.
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