Catholic Saints

Love God and do as you will, says St. Augustine, for love is its own commandment.

The spirituality of St. Francis is not so much about the heroic deed as it is about the heroic love with which even the smallest deed is done.

That total abandonment to God would be Josephine’s legacy—and it is one we can work toward as 21st-century Catholics.

Francis himself realized that prayer or fasting cannot change one’s heart. Only God can.

In writing to a Poor Clare, St. Bonaventure said, “Your heart is to be an altar of God. It is here that the fire of intense love must burn always.”