He is in my top tier of favorites (along with Augustine, Therese, Francis, Julian of Norwich, Maximilian Kolbe, and John the Evangelist). I had planed on writing a Bonaventurian meditation for the day, but every time I read this prayer of his, I am reduced to blessed silence.
Please, take some time to read, ponder, and pray this prose from the Seraphic Doctor of the Church:
Prayer of Saint Bonaventure
Pierce, O most sweet Lord Jesus, my inmost soul with the most joyous and healthful wound of Thy love, and with true, calm and most holy apostolic charity, that my soul may ever languish and melt with entire love and longing for Thee, may yearn for Thee, the Bread of Angels, the refreshment of holy souls, our daily and super substatial bread, having all sweetness and savor and every delightful taste. May my heart ever hunger after and feed upon Thee, Whom the angels desire to look upon, and may my inmost soul be filled with the sweetness of Thy savor; may it ever thirst for Thee, the fountain of life, the fountain of wisdom and knowledge, the fountain of eternal light, the torrent of pleasure, the fullness of the house of God; may it ever compass thee, seek and glory Thy name, with humility and discretion, with love and delight, with ease and affection, with persererance to the end; and be Thou alone ever my hope, my entire confidence, my riches, my delight, my pleasure, my joy, my rest and tranquility, my peace, my sweetness, my food, my refreshment, my refuge, my help, my wisdon, my portion, my possession, my treasure; in Whom may my mind and my heart be ever fixed and firm and rooted immovably. Amen.
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