When we went to Assisi, a few years ago, we stayed with a Franciscan brother. Each morning he rose early to say prayers in the little chapel before breakfast.
One morning I joined him for prayers, and I found it an intense and moving experience. He read from Deuteronomy, and I was shocked at the power of the image revealed by the words:
“Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked…” Deuteronomy 10:16.
