Lent with Padre Pio: Easter Sunday
As we celebrate Sunday, let us remember to move forward in the spirit of Padre Pio—caring for and serving others so that they may come to know Christ.
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Lent with St. Francis: True Concern for the Poor
The tension between material possessions and the spiritual life has always been part of religious life. We see it in our own religious institutions and in our own lives.
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Lent with St. Francis: The Cross Is before Us
The cross is before us now with its wordless challenge to love beyond death. Take some time this week to think about events in your own life that have given you an experience of Jesus’s command to pick up your ...
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Lent with St. Francis: Worldly Power
Even after his conversion, Francis retains something of his antipathy for the Perugians, historical enemies of Assisi and the faction that imprisoned him in his fighting days.
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Lent with St. Francis: Praising God
Francis understood that the way to imitate Jesus was by doing the good works that he had done, but there was also a mystical dimension to that identification.
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Lent with St. Francis: What Is Ours?
Francis wanted to make sure that his brothers understood that any glory they might experience always reflected more on God’s goodness than on any merit of their own.
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Lent with St. Francis: True Disciples
In modeling his life on the Gospels, Francis hoped that people would see in him and in the Lesser Brothers an example of what they, too, could achieve if they would only follow Jesus.
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