St. Francis of Assisi

Today is his feast day.  Now here is a fellow who took the gospel seriously, especially about clothes.  He took all his off one day and stood in the town square.  Today, he would be arrested and be refused permission to function in any official category of the church.  He was simply renouncing all his possessions and giving them back to his father who disagreed with Francis' "vocation."  Today, wearing expensive clothes seems to be more in among the clergy than a few years ago.  We all hold up Francis as a great saint.  But if he lived in this age, I am not so sure we would all feel so comfortable around him.  Saints are like that.  The further away they are from us, the more comfortable we are about their existence.  Do we keep the Gospel book pretty far away too?  How many of us, when the Gospel is being proclaimed in the church worship service, are looking around at what everyone else is wearing?