Tau PublishingA Meditation in Solitude of One Who Is Poor
Meditatio Pauperis in Solitudine · by an anonymous author of the thirteenth century · Early Franciscan Ascetical Writings, Volume II
translated by Fr. Campion Murray, OFM
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- ISBN, perfect bound
- 978-1-61956-034-5
- ISBN, EPUB ebook
- 978-1-61956-718-4
- ISBN, PDF ebook
- 978-1-61956-719-1
- Pages
- 296
- Size
- 5.5 × 8.5 in
- Edition
- Perfect bound first edition, August 2012
- Language
- English
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About this book
“I am one who sees my poverty.” — Lamentations 3:1, the opening words of the Meditation
Written by an unknown Friar Minor in the late thirteenth century, this Meditation sets before the reader “the admirable, the more than admirable Lady Poverty.” It shows how Christ in his Passion embraced the highest degree of poverty, and how blessed Francis wished to make that same poverty his own.
The author moves from word to word of Scripture, especially the visions of the Book of Revelation, the four angels, the earth, the sea and the trees, and the servants of God sealed on their foreheads, finding in each a matter for meditation on the Franciscan life.
Campion Murray, OFM, offers the first English translation, made from the critical edition of Ferdinand M. Delorme, OFM (1929), whose preface on the manuscript and the question of authorship is included.
Inside
- Translator’s Preface
- Preface to the Critical Edition by Ferdinand M. Delorme, OFM
- Part I: the Meditation begins; Christ’s poverty and Francis’ poverty
- Parts II and III: meditations on the visions of Revelation
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