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In the eighth century, commenting on this fateful scene from Matthew's life, Bede penned this beautiful sentence, from which Bergoglio would pluck three words to serve as the motto on his coat of arms as bishop and as pope: Miserando atque eligendo. But Bede later writes that Matthew is moved to follow Jesus "by an invisible, interior impulse flooding his mind with the light of grace." The experience of mercy, as seen in the Gospel where Jesus calls and forgives Matthew, arcs like a rainbow over Francis' life. Jesus looks upon Matthew with compassion, and Bede says that the call comes because of and through this special way of seeing. [Extracted from the article] |
