3rd Week of Lent - Wednesday B
When Saint Francis made the long journey from Assisi to Rome in the year 1209, and headed to the Lateran Basilica to present his rule, we know that one of the reasons it wasn’t initially accepted by the Holy Father, Pope Innocent III, is the fact that it was too long. He asked Francis, after giving him an informal, and oral approval of the rule, to trim it down to something less arduous to read, let alone to live! Thank-you Pope Innocent III! This he did, and from twenty-four chapters, he shortened what is now the approved rule of the Friars Minor to twelve chapters which is half the original length.