Franciscan Saints

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.”

Always bear in mind as a safe general rule that while God tries us by his crosses and sufferings, he always leaves us a glimmer of light by which we continue to have great trust in him and to recognize ...

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.

How great must have been Saint Francis’ reverence for God’s name and God’s love!

Again and again, Saint Francis admonishes us to hold reverently the words of God which hold God himself in their mystery.