The light of love burns brightly even long after a life’s heart has stopped beating. Love lives on, even as the hearts of those left bear the burden of absence. Presence and absence both increase the flame of love. Pain in beauty and beauty in redemptive pain. Love...
The Divine action may turn our lives upside down; it may call us into various forms of service. Readiness for any eventuality is the attitude of one who has entered into the freedom of the Gospel. Commitment to the new world that Christ is creating requires...
Vespers As light departs to let the earth be one with night, Silence deepens in the mind, and thoughts grow slow; The basket of twilight brims over with colors Gathered from within the sacred meadows of the day And offered like blessings to the gathering Tenebrae. ...
Most high, all-powerful, all good, Lord! All praise is yours, all glory, all honor And all blessing. To you alone, Most High, do they belong. No mortal lips are worthy To pronounce your name. All praise be yours, my Lord, through all that you have made, And first my...
Francis of Assisi was a man with a magnetic personality who believed God called him to live a life of poverty and simplicity. His message and life seemed to be precisely suited for the age. Similar to the monastic orders, Francis chose vows of poverty and chastity....
Visitor Reflections