“‘Nudum Christum, nudus sequere’ – naked we follow the naked Christ. A cry from the Middle Ages proclaiming that to follow Christ we, like Christ, must leave behind us everything which might stand between ourselves and God. We shall have no concern for wealth, for riches or for influence but freely embrace poverty and simplicity. Many historic writers developed the themes of naked poverty and renunciation in their theologies while others like St Francis looked on the poverty of the naked and crucified Christ in a more literal way, standing before the Bishop and people of Assisi as the young Francis turned his life from the world, and laying naked on the bare earth when dying and awaiting the final journey to God. ‘Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there’. (Job 1:21)”
Glenn Lowcock
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