Lent with the Saints: Clare
Greg Friedman, OFM
April 5, 2020
Clare’s vocation, nurtured in her family’s home with her mother and sisters, had grown into a longing to live the gospel life in simple service.
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Lent with the Saints: Catherine of Siena
Greg Friedman, OFM
April 4, 2020
Catherine was a Third Order Dominican known for her prayer, her severe ascetical practices, and her learning.
Lent with the Saints: Stephen
Greg Friedman, OFM
April 3, 2020
In his life and death, Stephen claims identification with Jesus and his power and presence in the world.
Lent with the Saints: Bernardine of Siena
Greg Friedman, OFM
April 2, 2020
Bernardine was acknowledged as a great preacher of the era. He had entered the Franciscans at age twenty-two, after spending time nursing plague victims in his hometown of Siena, Italy.
Lent with the Saints: Maximilian Mary Kolbe
Greg Friedman, OFM
April 1, 2020
Conventual Franciscan Maximilian Kolbe, imprisoned in Auschwitz in 1941, witnessed many fellow prisoners taken to the gas chambers or killed in other brutal ways.
Lent with the Saints: Leonard of Port Maurice
Greg Friedman, OFM
March 31, 2020
In recent years the Holy Father has led the Way of the Cross during Holy Week at the Colosseum in Rome. This annual custom would have pleased the great Franciscan preacher Leonard of Port Maurice.
Lent with the Saints: Margaret of Cortona
Greg Friedman, OFM
March 30, 2020
St. Margaret of Cortona was a thirteenth-century Italian orphaned at seven. She later lived with a man to whom she bore a son out of wedlock.
Lent with the Saints: Jeremiah
Greg Friedman, OFM
March 29, 2020
There the Lord promises a “new covenant” to the people. Once again, Jeremiah anticipates Jesus.
Lent with the Saints: Teresa of Avila
Greg Friedman, OFM
March 28, 2020
Teresa brought her prodigious gifts to her time. She grounded her public persona in a deep personal life.
Lent with the Saints: Ignatius of Loyola
Greg Friedman, OFM
March 27, 2020
Wisdom 2:1a, 12–22; Psalm 34:17–18, 19–20, 21, 23; John 7:1–2, 10, 25–30
“You know me, and you know where I am from. I have not come on my own. But the one who sent me is true, and you do not know him. I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me” (John 7:28–29). These words are from today’s Gospel of John, as Jesus, threatened by his enemies, nevertheless comes to the Temple in Jerusalem for the Feast of Tabernacles. He begins to teach openly about who he is. His words challenge those who would claim intimacy with God but are in fact far from it.