
Daring to Make Peace
The two men recognized in each other a desire for peace and a devotion to their mutual sacred texts, the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Q’uran.
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The two men recognized in each other a desire for peace and a devotion to their mutual sacred texts, the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Q’uran.

Peace is achieved more effectively by trying to bring out the best, not pointing out the worst, in others.

Saint Francis simply loved Christ and lived the Gospel, and he and his brothers became thereby catalysts for social change.

Was there a defining moment when Francis realized that it was God he was trying to love?

St. Thérèse of Lisieux teaches us that Christian mysticism is not an esoteric branch of theology or something separate from the gospel life.

In John, as in all mystics, to be pure and completely open before God is the purpose of the dark night.

Some will see in Catherine of Siena every sign of psychosis: the split personality, hearing voices, demonic visions, and a mystical marriage. The signs, to be sure, are there.