Love Is the Foundation
Great religion seeks utter awareness and full consciousness, so that we can, in fact, receive all. Everything belongs and everything can be received.
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God Acts Out of Love
For Scotus, God never merely reacts but always supremely and freely acts, and acts totally out of love.
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Sister Water, Precious and Pure
Water always and forever seeks the lower, and even the lowest, place.
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St. Clare, the Contemplative
Clare protects and offers us a contemplative spirituality for both women and men.
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Rich in Poverty
“Rich by reason of its poverty.” That phrase was as difficult to understand in Francis’s day as it is in ours. Celano was not pulling this expression out of thin air. St. Paul had written that Christ became poor for ...
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Quiet Your Anxieties
Francis was “centered” long before that term became popular among spiritual writers. His values became more and more aligned with God’s, but Francis did not use that as a reason to become self-righteous. That is a temptation many of his ...
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St. Francis Encounters the Crucified Christ
The Franciscan path to God is an inversion of monastic values. Rather than fleeing the world to find God, God is to be found in the world. The idea that “the world is our cloister” finds its root in Francis ...
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