Let Us Pray: St. Clare’s Prayerful Life
Carol Ann Morrow
July 25, 2021
The privilege of poverty, as much as I can embrace it, is an outer simplification. Advancing age reveals it to me, but Clare shows me how to maximize its revelations.
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Lent with St. Francis: The Cross Is before Us
Diane M. Houdek
March 28, 2021
The cross is before us now with its wordless challenge to love beyond death. Take some time this week to think about events in your own life that have given you an experience of Jesus’s command to pick up your ...
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The Election’s Over—Now What?
Patrick Carolan
October 30, 2020
On November 3, we all have an obligation to vote to determine the direction in which our great nation is moving. We've heard the speeches and read the attacks on each candidate.
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Be a Living Prayer: Tips from Saint Francis of Assisi
Daniel P. Horan, Phd
October 6, 2020
With the guidance of Saint Francis of Assisi, you can learn to ground your life in prayer.
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Dear Reader: Saints in a Vacuum
Susan Hines-Brigger
October 5, 2020
For most of us, when we think of saints, we view them as frozen in time. St. Francis will always be wandering the hills of Assisi, preaching the Gospel, and facing the challenges of the Church in his time.
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The Courage to Change: Wisdom from Assisi
Gillian T.W. Ahlgren
October 4, 2020
Metanoia is a process of change, of deepening conversion. Francis and Clare can be models for us today as we try to live out the Gospel in our own challenging times.
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