Strive for Clarity and Compassion
Laurence Freeman, OSB
March 30, 2020
Clarity grows with the spirit of acceptance and the purifying of the mind.
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Lent with the Saints: Margaret of Cortona
Greg Friedman, OFM
March 30, 2020
St. Margaret of Cortona was a thirteenth-century Italian orphaned at seven. She later lived with a man to whom she bore a son out of wedlock.
A Franciscan Response to COVID-19
Mark Soehner, OFM
March 30, 2020
By now, no one needs to tell you about the impact of the pandemic we’re experiencing. There are a great number of inconveniences. There is also a lot of fear and confusion. Social distancing and the rate of change make all of our daily lives more difficult.
Choose How to Respond
Laurence Freeman, OSB
March 29, 2020
The human mind can be very reactive. We don’t get what we want and we rage, complain, or attack whatever we can blame for the disappointment.
Lent with the Saints: Jeremiah
Greg Friedman, OFM
March 29, 2020
There the Lord promises a “new covenant” to the people. Once again, Jeremiah anticipates Jesus.
The Truth Will Set You Free
Laurence Freeman, OSB
March 28, 2020
You have only to be truthful to cause trouble. But it’s a different kind of trouble when you are untruthful.
Lent with the Saints: Teresa of Avila
Greg Friedman, OFM
March 28, 2020
Teresa brought her prodigious gifts to her time. She grounded her public persona in a deep personal life.
Understanding Stability
Laurence Freeman, OSB
March 27, 2020
Stability brings the point of departure and the place of arrival together in a dynamic stillness and a radical openness to change.
Lent with the Saints: Ignatius of Loyola
Greg Friedman, OFM
March 27, 2020
Wisdom 2:1a, 12–22; Psalm 34:17–18, 19–20, 21, 23; John 7:1–2, 10, 25–30
“You know me, and you know where I am from. I have not come on my own. But the one who sent me is true, and you do not know him. I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me” (John 7:28–29). These words are from today’s Gospel of John, as Jesus, threatened by his enemies, nevertheless comes to the Temple in Jerusalem for the Feast of Tabernacles. He begins to teach openly about who he is. His words challenge those who would claim intimacy with God but are in fact far from it.
Who Was the ‘Beloved Disciple ‘?
Pat McCloskey, OFM
March 27, 2020
In the Gospel of John, “the disciple whom Jesus loved ” is at the foot of the cross (19:26) and is entrusted with caring for the mother of Jesus (19:27). Who is this disciple and what makes him more loved than anyone else?
For centuries, most Christians have thought it was the Apostle John, but biblical scholars have more recently questioned this. The “Beloved Disciple, ” who appears only in the Gospel of John, is introduced in 13:23 with later references in 18:15–16; 19:26–27; 20:2–4, 8; and 21:7, 20, 23–24.