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Love Letters From God

February 14, 2020

Viewing Scripture as “love letters from God” causes us to pause and reconsider the significance of the Bible in our personal and communal lives of faith.

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Wolf shows its teeth

St. Francis and the Taming of the Wolf

February 6, 2020
This beloved story of the wolf has a lot to teach us about peacemaking in our own times.
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Will I See My Pet in Heaven?

February 4, 2020
The creation story of Genesis suggests that God’s care and love extend to all creatures.
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St. Maximilian Kolbe: Franciscan Martyr

January 29, 2020
On July 30, 1941, a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz, the notorious Nazi camp in Poland...
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People walk in dense fog in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp during ceremonies in late January marking the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of the camp and International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day in in Oswiecim, Poland. (CNS photo/Kacper Pempel, Reuters)

St. Maximilian Kolbe: A Life of Heroic Love

January 27, 2020
Pope John Paul II canonized Conventual Franciscan Father Maximilian Kolbe in Rome on October 10, 1982.
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Be Still and Know

January 23, 2020
I believe we are naturally restless people.
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Learning to Let Go

January 21, 2020
I have moved many times in my life. Twelve times, in fact.
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