Catholic Saints
St. Anthony, Help Me Find…Beauty
St. Anthony of Padua, that Hammer of Heretics, serves as a model to me that I am to preach against any dualism within myself that blocks an openness to beauty.
St. Anthony, Help Me Find…Well-Being
Life can often feel like, in St. Anthony’s words, “choppy water,” and we can indeed lose our sense of bearing when things get chaotic or even hostile.
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St. Anthony, Help Me Find…Community
One of my favorite stories of St. Anthony is the one about how, during the final years of his life, the friars built Anthony a treehouse in a large walnut tree not far from the friary.
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St. Anthony, Help Me Find…Stability
St. Anthony can, through meditation and prayer, help us find a sense of calm long enough to hear God’s voice.
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St. Anthony, Help Me Find…Peace
St. Anthony’s peaceful way of being still impresses after 800 years.
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St. Francis Lived Honestly
Francis desired to live honestly. If the friars could do without something, then it belonged to a poor person who needed it.
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Carlo Acutis: ‘Thy Eternal Summer Shall Not Fade’
When I think about Carlo Acutis, like everybody, I think of his youth. And that inevitably makes me think of my own teen years. The summer before my senior year of high school, Pete, a classmate of mine, was killed ...
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