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The Lord’s Prayer gives us a sample of what prayer should be. If what you are praying for doesn’t somehow fit into the Lord’s Prayer, it shouldn’t be prayed for.
Feeding others—both literally and spiritually—is the theme of this week’s Gospel. It reminds us that Chris is the bread of life for all.
Enduring a seriously dysfunctional marriage and being left a widow, Saint Marguerite d’Youville did not give in to despair. Rather, she founded the Sisters of Charity of Montreal, the “Grey Nuns,” rescued a failing hospital, and cared for the sick. Not even the destruction of the hospital by fire drove her to despair.
How is Jesus the food that feeds our deepest hungers? At every Eucharist we’re commissioned to take its power into everyday life where we’re called to feed others, with both physical and spiritual food.
God doesn’t hear prayer that is addressed to making us look good. If we want to get through to him it has to be on his wavelength–that is, in quiet and in secret.
María Natividad Venegas de la Torre (1868-1959) had a choice. She could treat the soldiers entering her hospital with the same disrespect that their government showed Catholics. Or she could meet them with courtesy and hospitality.
Saint Albert Chmielowski was a talented painter and a Secular Franciscan. In mid-life, he founded the Brothers of the Third Order of Saint Francis, Servants to the Poor, who worked with the poor and homeless. Known also as the Albertine Brothers, this community was renowned for depending completely on alms.
We are called to love our neighbor not because the neighbor is good, not because we are good, but because God is good and wants everyone to enjoy his goodness.
Anthony of Padua is often called upon when we have lost something–our keys, wallet, homework, etc. Yet he was also an outstanding preacher. He spoke in a way that allowed ordinary people to understand the extraordinary mercy of God.
An Augustinian monk who was inspired by the martyrdom of Franciscan missionaries, Saint Anthony of Padua joined the Franciscans hoping to be a missionary. But God had other plans for him. He became one of the outstanding philosopher/theologians of the Order.
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