Make Room for Grace
Kyle Kramer
January 5, 2025
We would do well to cultivate intentionality rather than undue attachment in our relationship with our belongings.
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We Are Called to Follow
Murray Bodo, OFM
October 5, 2019
Francis follows in the footsteps of Jesus, and that is where most of us falter. We want to follow Jesus’ footsteps, but we know ahead of time where they lead, and we are afraid. We hold back. In his writings ...
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Walking in the Divine Footprints
Ilia Delio, OSF
October 4, 2019
Francis went about the world following the footprints of Christ, not so he could look like Christ, but because they were the footprints of divine humility. He discovered that God descends in love to meet us where we are and ...
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Called to Bend Low in Love
Ilia Delio, OSF
September 28, 2019
Francis of Assisi wanted to be a “brother minor” so that he could humbly bend down in solidarity with all living creatures of the earth. We, too, are called to bend low in love, to find the humble love of ...
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Every Breath of Life Is the Breath of God
Ilia Delio, OSF
September 26, 2019
To live in God’s humble love is to live in attentiveness, openness and relationship: attentiveness to the presence of God in the details of the fragile human person, openness to the ways God is both hidden and revealed in creation, ...
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What If We Did What Francis Did?
Robert Ellsberg
September 18, 2019
In one way or another the Franciscan saints were all struck by the question that came to St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, whose dramatic conversion was prompted by his meditation on the saints: “What if I ...
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Christ Cannot Be Limited
Ilia Delio, OSF
September 17, 2019
Through his life in Christ, Francis came to see that Christ cannot be limited to a single human person; rather, Christ encompasses the whole creation. Nowhere is this more evident than in his Canticle of the Creatures. By entering into ...
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