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Why do Franciscans so often wear a Tau cross or use it in their artwork? Also, compared to the crosses we usually see, why doesn’t it have a top part?
When COVID-19 prevented artist Mark Balma from traveling to Italy to paint frescoes of holy women, he devised a novel solution: Paint them in the United States and ship them there.
When a classmate challenged Blessed Frédéric Ozanam to put his faith into action in 1833, he took it to heart. Today his legacy lives on through this organization.
“Lent is not an intellectual exercise, but an affair of the heart,” says this author. By centering ourselves in prayerful silence, we open ourselves up to a deeper engagement with this holy season.
As a zealous young man, I often undertook pretty extreme examples of Lenten fasting.
God holds each of us responsible for our personal behavior. Good people will be rewarded for their goodness and bad people will be punished for their sinfulness.
A vibrant relationship with God requires us to own our emotions—even anger. Just ask Job and Abraham.
The revelation of the Gospels is that our God is bigger and greater and more loving and trustworthy than even the best human being we have known.
Francis teaches us that by learning to rely on the Lord and on the gifts we receive from others—and all is gift—we are as needy as any beggar on the street.
Like many parents of young children, it’s rare for me to get a good night’s sleep. Our first child came to us through adoption, and since he was nearly a year old, I naively thought he would sleep through the night. Instead, I faced the brutal reality of every new mom who rises multiple times a night to feed and comfort her baby. Since those early days over a decade ago, I have birthed four babies and have had to make my peace with interrupted sleep.
