Jesus teaches the crowd and explains: what makes one impure is what comes from the heart.
Francis, pure in heart, transparent in his intentions and intentions, had also introduced in the Admonitions he wrote a clear guiding call for his brothers - on the merits of behaviour.
In the Sources:
"When we live according to the flesh, the devil wants to take away from us the love of [our Lord] Jesus Christ and eternal life, and wants to lose himself with everyone in hell; for we through our own fault are ignoble, miserable, and contrary to good, ready instead and willing for evil, because, as the Lord says in the Gospel: Out of the heart proceed and come forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, impudiciousness, envy, false witness, blasphemy, [pride], foolishness. All these evil things proceed from within the heart of man, and it is these things that defile man.
Now instead, since we have left the world, we have nothing to do but to follow the will of the Lord and to please Him alone" (FF 57).
In this way he instructed his brothers in the way of purity.
And in the Vita Prima of Celano, regarding his brothers:
"And this is what they always used to do when they came to him; they did not hide even the slightest thought and involuntary motions of their souls from him, and after having accomplished all that was commanded them, they still considered themselves useless servants.
And truly "purity of heart" filled that first group of the blessed Francis' disciples to such a degree that, although they knew how to do useful, holy and upright things, they showed themselves utterly incapable of drawing vain pleasure from them.
Then blessed Francis, clasping his sons to himself with great love, began to manifest to them his plan and what the Lord had revealed to him" (FF 370).
Magnificence of the little ones!
«What comes out of man, that makes man unclean» (Mk 7:20)
Wednesday 5th wk. in O.T. (Mk 7,14-23)