In my Who Am I? post, I wrote the following:
“That anguish is strongest and is centered for the most part on my “working” life. In the current context, I use the word work specifically in reference to what I do to earn money. This is as opposed to the general notion of “work” as a [...]
As I mentioned in the last post, my fraternity used a chapter from the book In the Footsteps of Francis And Clare for ongoing formation during a bus ride to a retreat in Fort Wayne last weekend. The chapter was entitled “Canticle of the Creatures.”
I’d like to touch on another theme from the chapter before [...]
Took a day long retreat trip to Fort Wayne last Saturday with my Secular Franciscan fraternity.
We met at 6:30 AM and rode the bus there and back. Got home about 10 PM.
During the ride we had a short formation discussion on a chapter from a book entitled In the Footsteps of Francis And Clare. [...]
As part of the study group materials, Sister included a selection from a book entitled In the Footsteps of Francis And Clare.
The chapter was entitled Meeting and Embracing a Leper (La Maddalena). It discusses Francis’ encounter with the leper, giving a detailed background on the area around Assisi where the encounter likely happened. La Maddalena [...]
This post continues the discussion from Is Poverty Evil? Please reference both that post and its comments to place this post in context.
As a Franciscan, I believe my spiritual father Francis has much to offer in this troubled modern time. If our world were to engage and embrace his charism, I think it would [...]
In preparation for my Franciscan study group this weekend, I am reading, among other things, the first chapter of a book entitled St. Francis and the Foolishness of God.
The title of that chapter is The Conversion of Francis: Encounter with the Poor.
The chapter begins by recounting Francis’ encounter with a leper on the outskirts of [...]
One more excerpt from the SFO formation preparation materials from last weekend:
“Whenever we face the issue of trust in God, fear is not far away. We want to trust God. We want to believe in God’s love and compassion for us. But we wonder if God will really come through. Will God be there when [...]
The material for my SFO formation meeting last weekend contained this line:
“Through profession of the SFO way of life, we choose to interpret life and find meaning.”
I really struggled with this statement. And my struggles only increased when later in the chapter this example was given as a possible application of that thought:
“A terrorist kills [...]
I have often struggled with understanding the theological virtue of Charity.
In every day life, there are many calls for us to be “charitable.”
I probably get at least one piece of mail a day asking me to contribute to this or that cause. We also get frequent phone calls (or at least we used to before [...]
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