Franciscan Spirituality

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Love Pours Forth

When I once preached on the wedding feast at Cana, I suggested that the six stone jars had a moral interpretation: six ways to purify the soul.

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The Place You Call Holy

Forget your cell, your cave, your place of prayer and be where you are—and in no other place.
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‘Peace to This House’ 

Francis of Assisi had rather specific instructions for how his brothers should go about their lives.
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I’d Like to Say: We Need to Stop ‘Othering’

The time-honored practice of othering those who differ from us is eating away at our Christian call to love one another. 
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Saint Anthony of Padua holds Jesus

Saint Anthony Is Second to Nobody

Saint Anthony often plays for second with his brother, Saint Francis. But we love them both equally.
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The Bible and Social Media

What does the Bible say about our use of social media? 
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Friar Christopher Panagoplos, TOR

If you know anything about Altoona, it’s that the western Pennsylvania town is noted for two things: railroads and the Horseshoe Curve.
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