
Roamin’ Catholic: Living with Less in Assisi
‘If living with less, even temporarily, helped me to understand the values of St. Francis a bit better, then it’s an experience I’m happy to have had.’
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‘If living with less, even temporarily, helped me to understand the values of St. Francis a bit better, then it’s an experience I’m happy to have had.’

Emotional and physical pain are parts of life, but that doesn’t make them easy to endure. Sometimes prayer is the best medicine.

The Israelites complained about the food that God provided for them in the desert. It wasn’t tasty enough. They didn’t recognize or appreciate what God was giving them.

Whether or not we realize it, we are all truly blessed in some way. It is often in the individual day-to-day moments that we can find true joy.

Our possessions are not ours pure and simple. Everything we have is on loan to us from God, and is to be restored to him at regularly established intervals.

As I see the photos of persons who have died from COVID-19, the richness of their lives, their meaning to loved ones, I weep at the loss to their families, friends, and communities.

God established holy days for his people to remind them that his relationship with them is ongoing, founded in time.

Martha and her siblings knew Jesus well. They loved him as a good friend. They had faith in what he taught and in what he could do.

With a little creativity, you can find many ways to interweave your life with prayer. Here are 10 suggestions.

The premise of the psalm refrain “The Lord Hears the Cry of the Poor” is how the Lord does not forget, he draws near to us in time of need.