Blessed Are the Meek
The meek are blessed precisely because they recognize their dependence on the generosity of God and creation.
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Rejoice in Humanity
Saints rejoice in their common humanity, knowing that God’s word becomes flesh in fallible and ambivalent persons like ourselves.
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Heaven and Earth
The first Franciscans believed that God was in the world, actively shaping human experience, and inspiring birds’ songs and wolves’ howls.
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The Almighty in All Things
To those who left all things, Jesus had promised eternal life and a hundredfold besides—now!
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Embrace the Beatitudes
At the heart of Francis’s and Clare’s biblical vision was the Sermon on the Mount, and most especially the Beatitudes.
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Ever New, Ever Young
Sometimes we resist conversion to the Lord’s way because we fear giving it full freedom will shrink our world, will make us more closed in.
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