Love and Triumph
As Bonaventure writes, God is “totally submerged in the waters from the sole of the foot to the top of the head…. [God] appeared to you as your beloved cut through with wound upon wound in order to heal you.”
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Heaven and Earth
The first Franciscans believed that God was in the world, actively shaping human experience, and inspiring birds’ songs and wolves’ howls.
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Embrace the Beatitudes
At the heart of Francis’s and Clare’s biblical vision was the Sermon on the Mount, and most especially the Beatitudes.
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St. Clare: Bright Light
What does Clare teach us about following Jesus? She teaches us to follow Francis, who followed Jesus so perfectly.
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Francis and Clare: Where the Tradition Begins
The genius of their spirituality was their recognition that the Gospels could and should be lived by every person.
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Beginning Again with St. Francis
Conversion is the ongoing process of learning to live the gospel way of life given to us by Jesus and revealed to us by Francis and Clare.
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