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Saint Anthony Novena Day Eight: Stay United with Your Healer
"No one is closer to us than he who healed our wounds. For the Head is one with his members. Let us therefore love him as our Lord and God." –Saint Anthony of Padua
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Saint Anthony Novena Day Seven: See the Depth of Christ’s Love
"During the meal, Jesus took bread, blessed it and broke it as a sign that his body would be broken, too, through his freely accepted death. The humanity of Christ is like the grape because it was crushed in the ...
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Saint Anthony Novena Day Six: Let God’s Light Shine Through You
"When a crystal is touched or struck by the rays of the sun, it gives forth brilliant sparks of light. When the man of faith is touched by the light of God's grace, he too must shine with his good ...
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Saint Anthony Novena Day Five: See Christ in Those Who Suffer
"Today Christ stands at the door and knocks in the person of his poor. It is to him that we open when we give aid, when we give ourselves to those in need. For he tells us plainly, 'Just as ...
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Franciscan Spirituality: God Is Love
Central to Franciscan spirituality is this: God is love.
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Saint Anthony Novena Day Four: Seek the Face of God before All Else
"Nothing apart from God can satisfy the human heart, which is truly in search of God." –Saint Anthony of Padua Reflection Not long ago one of the friars living here at the Monastery observed that, out of this time ...
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