A Higher Calling
Not everyone is called to be a professed Franciscan. But everyone is called to be Franciscan.
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Surrender All for Christ
Both Sts. Francis and Clare of Assisi recognized the importance of what happened at the cross as a model for Christian life.
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Take Up Your Cross
Those few friends and family members who stayed behind and perhaps risked their own lives for the sake of their friend and Lord have denied themselves to follow Jesus.
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Parable of the Two Criminals
Paradise, or the kingdom, is also a reality that is not off in some distant future, but is, as Jesus says, here “with me today.”
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God Suffered Out of Love
After Francis’ death, Bonaventure will talk about the “transformative power of love.” Love is what moved the heart and mind of the saint from Assisi, and it is love that is the greatest force for change and good in our ...
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Sinners Make the Best Contemplatives
Jesus said he came for the sick, not the healthy. He dined with sinners, not church leaders. So who’s “special”?
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