St. Anthony, Help Me Find…Beauty
Stephen Copeland
June 13, 2025
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 Anthony Novena Day Three: The Missionary
Pat McCloskey, OFM
June 6, 2022
Anthony was a missionary in Morocco for less than a year. Little is known about those months except that Anthony became so ill that his superiors decided to send him back home.
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Saint Anthony Novena Day Two: Rooted in Scripture
Pat McCloskey, OFM
June 5, 2022
Anthony had an extraordinary knowledge of Scripture, thanks to the natural gifts that were expanded by his excellent education as an Augustinian canon.
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Saint Anthony Novena Day One: Man of Many Talents
Pat McCloskey, OFM
June 4, 2022
In almost 11 years as a Friar Minor, Anthony had six very different ministries in three countries. Today we might ask, “Why couldn’t he keep a job?”
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Gun Violence and Our Year of Living Dangerously
Christopher Heffron
June 2, 2022
With gun violence on the rise, we as a nation find ourselves at a crossroads.
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Sisterhood of Saints: Joan of Arc
Melanie Rigney
May 30, 2022
Until the bitter end this holy warrior was confident she had remained obedient to God.
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The Franciscan Embrace of ‘the Other’
Sister Margaret Carney, OSF STD
May 25, 2022
The call to enter into the world of “the other” contains a costly component. Moving from accepted bias, taboos, and prejudices is not an easy step.
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