Famous writings and phrases from the sermons of San Bernardino of Siena, a religious who lived between the 14th and 15th centuries, belonging to the order of the Franciscan friars minor, originally from Massa Marittima and descendant of the Albizzeschi family, took his vows in his early twenties .
Writings of San Bernardino of Siena
- I want to teach you to pray this morning. If you spin with good intent, you are with operation. Oh new thing, that while you work, you can pray, and you don't miss it! O you who do your art and do it lawfully, always òri. Do you make shoes? Do you do the art of wool? Do you master the wood or stone? Or if you are a blacksmith or any other profession you do? If you do it lawfully, always go; and this is the work.
- If you are only with your mouth, nothing will be worth it. Doh, I want to tell you what happened to one of our friars. One of our friars prayed with his mouth only, not having the heart of anything he said; unde that by praying in this way, he appeared to him a head of dog who led his mouth as he did, meaning that his prayer was better than a dog who led his mouth. You know, when you say the Ave Maria or '1 paternostro, not having the heart, just do like a dog that leads the mouth. So I tell you that you say the office, or friar or priest or any religious, if you do not have the heart, you do nothing.
- Doh, have you ever seen angling? Yes, he takes an earthworm, and gets in the hook, and the fish goes to catch the earthworm, and he gets caught.
You see that fish is caught for food. What does food mean? It means the word; that to go and take the word, the soul remains caught, because the body has the pleasure of taking that food of the word.
- O you, who are cold and dead, go to the source of life. O woman, you know, in the morning when you come to the source of the life and doctrine of God, to preach, do not leave your husband in bed, neither your son nor your brother; but let him wake him up and let him come to hear what, if he is dead, will make him alive.
- O old stingy and pusillanimous, that you find yourself rich, full the house with wheat, wine, oil, meat and everything, and you believe to die in miseries, and every little thing seems to you little, and you are always in breathlessness of money, burying them when in the room and when in the room, when in a canton and when in the stable;
believe me that you will go away, and she will remain, that you believe that the world will fail you!
- He who aims in the companion's canteen, that is, sees the neighbor's house or house and wishes, saying: “Oh, she would be fine with me and so I would take this house; and the man's vineyard, oh, how much he would catch me! " Similar: “Or that bottle would fit me as well! If I could have it, I would style it by way, that I would put this with that, and it wouldn't be in the middle of me! So I would put this garden together with mine, together. You don't see povaretto that you wouldn't want to have near you, that the whole world would embrace!
Phrases of San Bernardino of Siena
- All the operations that we do are clear to God. Man must do what he wants, that God sees everything he does. And yet if you make sins, beware, that the judgment of God is near. Do you know how those who make hay do it? Elli holds the scythe in her hand, and arruota arruota. Oimé, oimé, oimé Siena! When he arranges the one who saws, look at yourself, I declare. That even then he will have sawn, a piece, he will re-wheel from scratch; and how it is so sawn, and she looks around from everywhere where it is to be sawn. Elli looks around from the east, the west, the midday and the north. See that he has already sawed in every part, except here. But I tell you: look, look, look carefully. Siena Siena is more lingering than any other country. Doh, watch that you don't sharpen the scythe, or that you don't beat it for yourself! You know that I know all these things first, and then I know the facts. You already see here in Siena the heart rotator. Doh, let's not say anymore, that should be enough to mean.
- Those who are thus deducting and wanting to conceal themselves, can be likened to ranochia. Do you know how ranochia does? Ranochia does: here, here, here, here. I already know it when they also say: here, here; and I know that I know the pit where she knows, and as I know, immediately Hellen escaped below, and there is no more motto. So does the defamer; that when he wants to defame, he uses what he says: here, here, here.He who hears himself goes beyond: here I am, what is it? It is no longer anything.
- You know, when a woman said badly about another, you know, when she says: "I have heard so and so about such, for such and for such." What will she do to whom you told her? She will also say it to you, and she will also say so that you don't say it. What she will say: "She is said of the so-and-so," The first said in singular, and so the prular is agreeable to her. And the third who has heard, will hate you even worse, who will say: "I have heard so and so of such from many people, and say that she is pregnant with such." And another agiognarà even worse, because it says: "The woman gave birth to a son to the one." And the other will say even worse, which will say: "She has made several children of others," and everyone has done something. O cursed tongue, look at what you have done with your words; that you have made so many sins, which is something not to believe it! Aim for how many souls you are to cause pèrdare! Aim at how many bodies you have endangered! And yet when you hate a bad one, never do it does not increase it, but it always worsens it so much, that if you can, nothing is left out.
- O wearer, who has already lent and stolen so much time and drunk the blood of the poor, how much damage you have done, and how much sin against the commandment of God! Do you not see that you are dense and founded in hellish punishments? You say perhaps: "I will confess it." Doh, povaretto, that in order for you to go to the confessor, you know, to the brotherhood that solves you, if he absolves you, you go with him together. O confessors, how many of you know that I have been deceived by many who have promised to return, and then make fun of God and the Saints? You don't want to remove them anymore! If ever more ellino come back to you, be wise: at least ensure that your soul is not lost with their whole. If you confess them, and they say to you: "I will pay back and want to amend for the time to come," make you see, they want to do the operation, and then he absolves it.
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- Whenever you come to give, give early and cheerful. And the pòvaro likes more a glass of water with joy and promptness than a quartuccio of wine with sloth and with difficulty.
- You would have to take example from the beasts, from the little birds, if you don't have the ability of you. O children, children, when you take the swallows, as swallows do? All the swallows gather together and want to engineer to help the swallows. Man does not do this: not that he tries to help him, but he has no compassion for him. Worse than birds is 1 man! O beccari, (isn´t anyone?) Did you mind what I tell you? Did you ever see when you killed any big beast? You know, when you love the calf, and there is another calf, or the cow present? Of course, if you see the bu ', the calf, which sees weeping with tears in its eyes for the compassion of the one who is dying. Oh, confusion of the cruel man, who has no compassion for the man who is his fellow man! That you see that the beast is flatter than it is you. So you can see de 'porci, who are so flat about each other, that like one shouts, everyone else runs to help him, if' 1 could have ait.
