Let Us Pray: St. Clare’s Prayerful Life
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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Editorial: Erasing the Stigma of Mental Illness
For those who love somebody struggling with mental illness, our job is to be fully present and listen without prejudice.
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Be Green: A Meditation on Our Planet
Surveying our lifestyles and making simple changes can do a world of good and do good for the world.
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Lent with St. Francis: ‘Let Us Begin Again’
Easter is a beginning, not an ending. And this Easter story from Thomas of Celano reminds us that for Francis, the challenge to remain true to the Gospel was one that needed to be renewed again and again.
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Lent with St. Francis: Dead to Sin
As we come now to the celebration of Easter, we recall that one of the hallmarks of Francis’s life was a deep joy in the love of Christ and the glories of creation.
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Lent with St. Francis: ‘By Your Holy Cross’
For St. Francis, meditating on the Passion was not some medieval exercise in masochism but a means of uniting himself completely to the sacrifice of Christ on the cross, a way of living so thoroughly into the mystery of Christ ...
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