Franciscan Spirituality

Life is change. But it is not antithetical to what came before, it is not a negation of that, or an elimination of it. In some ways, it might be a building upon it.

Thomas of Celano, an early friar and author of three hagiographies of Francis, wrote that the saint “burned with a love that came from his whole being for the sacrament of the Lord’s body.”

Francis knew that idolatry was the key sin in the Old Testament.

I spend my last night of my pilgrimage to Italy on the balcony of my hotel room drinking wine and looking up at a heavy sky.

This one small moment shows how seeming insecurity, and daring to name it, can also be a pathway toward truth and learning about oneself.