
John XXIII and John Paul II: Beloved Saints
God touched the lives of John XXIII and John Paul II.
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God touched the lives of John XXIII and John Paul II.

Everybody looks at the world through their own lens, a matrix of culturally inherited qualities, family influences, and other life experiences.

Over 40 years ago, a gentle Franciscan high school teacher penned a seminal book about Saint Francis. It wasn’t a biography or a treatise on the little Poor Man of Assisi but a romantic, imaginative work that presents the saint from the inside out.

A joyful Christmas to you! Thanks for spending a minute with me on this great day.

It was not until the year 2002 that I discovered the very first book ever written about Saint Anthony, the contemplative.

Juan Diego is more well-known than any king, queen, bishop, missionary or conquistador of that era. Though famous personalities pass away, Juan Diego continues to live in the memory of the people.

This holy couple offers four lessons for your feast.

Educated by a household servant, Monica cared for her father and siblings until she married Patricius, a pagan landowner and minor Roman official of the same town.

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JN 14:15-21
Jesus said to his disciples: “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows him.
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by Father Greg Friedman, OFM

If St. James is Jesus’ brother, would James not also be God’s son? Were Mary and Joseph the parents of James?