The Inbreaking of the Word: Week 4 of Advent
From Father Jim: "While we celebrate the birth of Christ as this great memorial, as this great celebration, as this great solemnity. We are a people with feet in two worlds, the world to come and the world that is ...
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Lent with the Saints: Catherine of Siena
Catherine was a Third Order Dominican known for her prayer, her severe ascetical practices, and her learning.
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Lent with the Saints: Stephen
In his life and death, Stephen claims identification with Jesus and his power and presence in the world.
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Lent with the Saints: Bernardine of Siena
Bernardine was acknowledged as a great preacher of the era. He had entered the Franciscans at age twenty-two, after spending time nursing plague victims in his hometown of Siena, Italy.
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Lent with the Saints: Maximilian Mary Kolbe
Conventual Franciscan Maximilian Kolbe, imprisoned in Auschwitz in 1941, witnessed many fellow prisoners taken to the gas chambers or killed in other brutal ways.
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Lent with the Saints: Leonard of Port Maurice
In recent years the Holy Father has led the Way of the Cross during Holy Week at the Colosseum in Rome. This annual custom would have pleased the great Franciscan preacher Leonard of Port Maurice.
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Lent with the Saints: Margaret of Cortona
St. Margaret of Cortona was a thirteenth-century Italian orphaned at seven. She later lived with a man to whom she bore a son out of wedlock.
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