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The Solemnity of the Assumption
Much of our religious consciousness is affected by art; we have inherited specific images that are more artistic than biblical. For example, we always imagine St. Paul being knocked from a horse on the Damascus Road. There is no mention of the horse in scripture. Is that a bid deal? Perhaps not. But when Caravaggio placed Paul on the horse, a sign of privilege or royalty, he removed Paul from the midst of Corinth, the hard-scrabbled sea port town, from among the drunks, slackards, ner-do-wells, and people who sorely needed salvation. Continue reading
St. Clare of Assisi
My Franciscan Province has a very nice two-part article on St Clare of Assisi. You can read them here:
Come Away….
“Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.” (Mark 6:31)
We hurry too much, pure and simple. Our days are filled with things to do, people to meet, calls to make, emails to return, kids to drop off/pick up. Doesn’t it feel like sometimes we just live our lives behind schedule? So much unfinished “stuff.” We are behind, getting “behinder” and are always hurrying. What’s wrong with hurrying?
Assisi Gallery
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An Assisi scene…
Ambiguity
As we do each Tuesday, my community of Franciscan friars comes together in the late afternoon to discuss the Scripture readings for the upcoming weekend. This coming Sunday is “Good Shepherd” weekend as the reading for the Gospel is always from John 10. It is also Vocation Sunday. In the course of the discussion, one of the friars remembered the key points of the homily at his ordination Mass. The presiding bishop said that the qualities of a good priest, a good shepherd, is a man who is joyful, lives simply, is a man of prayer, and one who can faithfully live in the ambiguity and uncertainty of parish life.
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St Francis and Lady Poverty
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Fresco on the ceiling of the lower church at the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi
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