
Lent with St. Francis: Cultivate a Peaceful Heart
A peaceful attitude can go a long way toward living the message of the Gospel. If we think before we speak or act, we will save ourselves and others a great deal of misunderstanding and heartache.
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A peaceful attitude can go a long way toward living the message of the Gospel. If we think before we speak or act, we will save ourselves and others a great deal of misunderstanding and heartache.

In this week’s Gospel, Jesus tells Nicodemus that everyone who believes in the Son of God will have eternal life.

In Lent we examine our lives in order to restore our part of the baptismal covenant–our relationship with God in Christ.

What exactly is refuge? It’s vastly different than shelter. Refuge is deeper, scarier. The stakes are higher when you need refuge.

Forgiveness is quite possibly the most difficult and yet essential action necessary for anyone living in community. Unless we’re hermits, that includes all of us.

Azariah’s prayer is appropriate for us to recall in our season of Lenten repentance. We have no right to God’s care. We can only ask for God’s mercy.

We often find it difficult to recognize the true prophets in our midst. We dismiss them as crackpots and extremists because they make us uncomfortable.

God’s mercy is offered to us because God is God. We are members of a sinful people. Yet God cares for us anyhow.

Francis was not the first saint to have encountered God during an illness. There’s something about serious illness that forces us to confront our mortality and then to question our priorities.

How dramatic and alluring is Micah’s statement that “God, who delights in clemency, and will again have compassion on us.