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What does it mean to accompany one another? The road to Emmaus can be our guide, writes Father Fred Cabras, a Franciscan mental health professional.
Franciscan spirituality is characterized by a dependence on God, humility, poverty, and simplicity. In a time of insecurity, how can we cultivate the faith that God will provide?
St. Francis told us to “begin again,” but first we need to rebuild the ruins in and around us.
“God is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.”
—St. Bonaventure
Forever etched in my mind is an image of my oldest daughter, Maddie, sitting at the bedside of her grandma—my mom—at the hospice center shortly before my mom’s death.
Francis no longer saw his body as something apart from him. He was his body; the spirit and body were one. He was one person.
The quiet nobility of the trees, the songs and sounds of the forest, and the sensation of being surrounded by a pulsing lifeforce all combine for what can be a sublime spiritual experience, if we open ourselves up to it.
Like love itself, joyful generosity is measured not by how much we give out, but by how little we hold back.
A natural theology doesn’t worship creation but sees and hears within creation a witness of praise to the creator. All that is created by the divine has a divine providence.
Many of us, in a truly admirable way, place our faith at the center, and are quite disciplined. But can we also invite lighthearted elements into our spiritual practices?
