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Both Sts. Francis and Clare of Assisi recognized the importance of what happened at the cross as a model for Christian life.
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Both Sts. Francis and Clare of Assisi recognized the importance of what happened at the cross as a model for Christian life.

Might we think about addressing others with compassion? Might we intercede when we see someone not treated with respect and teach our children to do the same?

God calls each one of us to accept and live out the unique task he has entrusted to us.

Hanging in our house is a large corkboard map of the United States. On the board are various pins placed on locations across the country, each one marking a place to which we have traveled.

We are not on a lonely journey, all alone on a long road. Our loving Father never takes his eyes off us.

Here are words of wisdom from St. Katharine Drexel.

Saint Oswald knew people in high places─his uncle was the archbishop of Canterbury. But even though he received “favors” from his uncle, he served humbly and gained holiness through God’s grace.

Did you know that anger is not always a sin? Think of Jesus overturning the tables of the money changers in the Temple. Righteous anger blazes in the lives of the saints and leads them to boldly stand up and speak out.

Saints rejoice in their common humanity, knowing that God’s word becomes flesh in fallible and ambivalent persons like ourselves.

We know little about Bathsheba whose story is overshadowed by King David’s. But we do learn this: From strange circumstances, great good can come.