Prayer

Both Sts. Francis and Clare of Assisi recognized the importance of what happened at the cross as a model for Christian life.

Jesus said, “I thirst.” What do you say in response?

Those few friends and family members who stayed behind and perhaps risked their own lives for the sake of their friend and Lord have denied themselves to follow Jesus.

Paradise, or the kingdom, is also a reality that is not off in some distant future, but is, as Jesus says, here “with me today.”