Catholic Saints
‘Your Heart Is to Be an Altar of God’
Jack Wintz, OFM
January 10, 2025
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.”
St. Francis, Spirit-Filled
Murray Bodo, OFM
December 30, 2024
Francis no longer saw his body as something apart from him. He was his body; the spirit and body were one. He was one person.
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Elizabeth of Hungary: Beloved Sister in a Troubled World
Donna Foley, OFS
November 16, 2024
May I tell you the story of a woman who was married at 14 and dead at 24? Does that sound like the making of a tragedy? What if I told you she left home and family not once but ...
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Carlo Acutis: Miracles, Holy Bread, and a Teen Saint in the Making
Maureen O'Brien
October 25, 2024
“Not me, but God,” Blessed Carlo Acutis is quoted as saying. When this author visited Assisi, she discovered the growing excitement surrounding the millennial teenager’s life, legacy, and sainthood cause.
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‘Come Before Him with Joyful Song’
Murray Bodo, OFM
October 20, 2024
Francis loved to sing. It freed his spirit and turned the human voice, so often an organ of selfishness and sin, into an instrument of celebration.
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Caring Heals
Pat McCloskey, OFM
October 13, 2024
Why not call or write a sick friend or relative? Caring heals.
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A Time to Rebuild