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As it is written in Matthew 7:1–2: “Stop judging, that you may not be judged. For as you judge, so will you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you.”
The past and the future are sprinkled with many blessings, however God is in the present.
Have you known a priest (or priests) along your journey who has helped transform your faith, trust, and hope?
Perhaps the most beautiful truth about prayer is that it is never really ours.
Prayer is the cornerstone of Franciscan life, fostering a deep relationship with God.
One of the most challenging things about grief is trusting God with the person we have lost, especially when it feels like God is silent in our suffering.
Francis himself realized that prayer or fasting cannot change one’s heart. Only God can.
While few humans are blessed with receiving a beatific vision—or seeing God directly—most of us, like Moses, see God’s back after God has come and gone. In other words, we see (or experience) God in hindsight, through holy aha moments.
In writing to a Poor Clare, St. Bonaventure said, “Your heart is to be an altar of God. It is here that the fire of intense love must burn always.”
Celtic spiritual guides identified certain geographical places as “thin places,” where heaven and earth meet and we can experience the nearness of God.
