Franciscan Spirit

Go and tell my servant David…“Are you the one to build me a house to live in?”… I took you from the pasture,…I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you; ...

For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap;…he will purify the descendants of Levi…. Lo, I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. He will turn the hearts ...

…[God] has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts. He has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly; he has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty. —Luke ...

And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her by the Lord. —Luke 1:45

She was much perplexed by [Gabriel’s] words and pondered what sort of greeting this might be. —Luke 1:29

But they had no children, because Elizabeth was barren, and both were getting on in years. —Luke 1:7