Lent with Padre Pio: Easter Sunday
Franciscan Media
April 20, 2025
As we celebrate Sunday, let us remember to move forward in the spirit of Padre Pio—caring for and serving others so that they may come to know Christ.
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Lent with St. Francis: The Virtue of Work
Diane M. Houdek
March 17, 2021
More and more people work at occupations that make few physical demands. While there will always be jobs that involve manual labor, not everyone can enjoy the satisfaction that comes with seeing a concrete result from physical work.
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Lent with St. Francis: Do We Like Complaining?
Diane M. Houdek
March 16, 2021
Not everyone wants to be well. Too often we become invested in our own weakness, our own sickness. It seems we would rather complain than deal with the responsibility of being healed.
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Lent with St. Francis: Signs and Wonders
Diane M. Houdek
March 15, 2021
Francis strenuously denied the suggestions that he was a saint. He kept hidden the marks of the stigmata. He refused to let people attribute miracles to him.
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Lent with St. Francis: Learning to See
Diane M. Houdek
March 14, 2021
We see light instead of darkness, and in that light we discover a side of ourselves that we thought we had lost. We look with new eyes on the people around us and see how they, too, are children of ...
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Lent with St. Francis: Holy Humility
Diane M. Houdek
March 13, 2021
True humility is knowing so well who we are in God’s loving sight that nothing anyone says or does can shake us.
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Lent with St. Francis: Perfect Joy
Diane M. Houdek
March 12, 2021
Francis discovered the hidden secret to inner peace: Don’t react. It doesn’t make the insults OK.
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