St. Anthony, Help Me Find…Beauty
St. Anthony of Padua, that Hammer of Heretics, serves as a model to me that I am to preach against any dualism within myself that blocks an openness to beauty.
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Saint Francis Novena | Day Four: Humility
Living honestly before God always carries over into living honestly with other people and in one’s own eyes.
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Saint Francis Novena | Day Three: Freedom
Everyone wants greater freedom, right? But what kind of freedom: to dominate and impose one’s will?
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Saint Francis Novena | Day Two: Forgiveness
Saint Francis was very attentive to the needs of the world around him, including what his native city required.
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Saint Francis Novena | Day One: Conversion
Francis was one of most free people who has ever lived—internally free, that is.
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Becoming Radically Open
If I’ve learned anything as a friar, it is that being a Christian means leaving behind everything and being totally fine with accepting whatever God gives me—big or small, happy or painful.
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Holy Mary: Model of Patience
“Be it done to me according to your word.” So it was for Mary, so it can be for us who wait in silent prayer seemingly unable to do anything to change our circumstances.
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