“For Francis,” writes Hans Urs von Balthasar in a beautiful passage from Razing the Bastions,
“to be a Christian was something just as immense, certain and
startlingly glorious as to be a human being, a youth, a man. And because
being a Christian is eternal being and eternal youth, without danger of
withering and resignation, his immediate joy was deeper. Not one single
year separated him from Christ, the one who had become flesh; from the
manger; from the Cross. For him, not one speck of dust had settled on
the freshness of the wonder in the passage of time. The hodie of the liturgy on the great feasts was the hodie of his life. Is there a saint who has had any other Christian consciousness of time?”
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