Franciscan Spirit
Lent with St. Francis: The Virtue of Work
More and more people work at occupations that make few physical demands. While there will always be jobs that involve manual labor, not everyone can enjoy the satisfaction that comes with seeing a concrete result from physical work.
Lent with St. Francis: Do We Like Complaining?
Not everyone wants to be well. Too often we become invested in our own weakness, our own sickness. It seems we would rather complain than deal with the responsibility of being healed.
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Lent with St. Francis: Signs and Wonders
Francis strenuously denied the suggestions that he was a saint. He kept hidden the marks of the stigmata. He refused to let people attribute miracles to him.
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Lent with St. Francis: Learning to See
We see light instead of darkness, and in that light we discover a side of ourselves that we thought we had lost. We look with new eyes on the people around us and see how they, too, are children of ...
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Lent with St. Francis: Holy Humility
True humility is knowing so well who we are in God’s loving sight that nothing anyone says or does can shake us.
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Lent with St. Francis: Perfect Joy
Francis discovered the hidden secret to inner peace: Don’t react. It doesn’t make the insults OK.
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Lent with St. Francis: Nothing to Defend
We have so much in our lives that we feel we need to defend. It can lead us to live in constant fear.
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