Prayer
Intimacy with God
There is a mysticism for everyone. The mysticism Francis offers is for all believers, a mysticism that he illustrates through the gestures of his own life.
Go and Find God in the Desert
It wasn’t until God’s people utilized the lesson from the desert that they made Jericho’s walls fall to the ground and began the storming of the Promised Land.
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God’s Self-Offering
The love of Jesus Christ that leads to his willing embrace of the crucified earthly destiny that appeared before him is both a model for how we are called to love and a revelation of God’s self-offering of control out ...
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Control, Surrender, Loss
If love is the free surrender of one’s control, then suffering is the involuntary taking of that control away.
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Lent with Padre Pio: Good Friday
Padre Pio was investigated by the Vatican regarding his claims of the stigmata and many suggested that he was inflicting the wounds on himself.
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What Is Your Song?
A jazz saxophonist once put it this way: “Music pulls me deeper into being.”
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Lent with Padre Pio: Holy Thursday
Though he did not eat very much, Padre Pio found great nourishment in receiving the Eucharist, just as we should.
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