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Thomas of Celano, an early friar and author of three hagiographies of Francis, wrote that the saint “burned with a love that came from his whole being for the sacrament of the Lord’s body.”
I spend my last night of my pilgrimage to Italy on the balcony of my hotel room drinking wine and looking up at a heavy sky.
It takes grit to cross a border for a better life, irrespective of laws. Asylum seekers are God’s beloved, too.
That total abandonment to God would be Josephine’s legacy—and it is one we can work toward as 21st-century Catholics.
St. Francis of Assisi was a medieval man to his core, yet his problems were not dissimilar to what we face today.
God knows our flaws and loves us in spite of them. We are not irredeemable.
We cannot rewrite history—though it is our duty to learn from it. And there is a legacy for us to fall back on.
