Advent with the Saints: Our Lady of Guadalupe
A desert becomes a marshland, and a wasteland flourishes with cypress and pine trees. A thirsty people find refreshment there. So, Isaiah today describes God’s care for Israel. Roses bloom in the winter and a miraculous image of a young ...
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Where Are You in God's Story?
The God of the heavens and the earth wants you too to remember who it is that he says that you are. Very likely, I do not know your story. Yours may read a lot like mine, or it may ...
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Where Love Can Lead
Slavish imitation is not what holiness is about, but rather it’s about learning to love God in our own time and place with its own sensibilities and ways of following in the footsteps of Jesus with all our heart and ...
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What Do We Do With This Great Love?
Francis's own song defined love for him. It was to live and be in God’s most holy will. And Francis has learned from Christ’s own words in the Gospels what God’s will is for those who love him. They are to ...
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Seeking Perfect Joy
The spirituality of St. Francis is not so much about the heroic deed as it is about the heroic love with which even the smallest deed is done. That is very clear from the quintessential story of Perfect Joy. It ...
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Love Draws Us Back to God
Love God and do as you will, says St. Augustine, for love is its own commandment. That is how St. Francis took it and lived it. He sinned, as all humans do, but after his conversion, he always knew when ...
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A Grand Humility
In these “Praises of the Lord God Most High” are contained Francis’s experience of God. This is who this God he has loved late and long has become for him. These praises say, “O God, this is your song, you ...
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