[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]o Ermentrude, dearest sister, Clare of Assisi, humble handmaid of Jesus Christ, greetings and peace. I know that you, o dearest sister, have fled the filth of the world, with the help of God's grace; for which I rejoice and give thanks...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]o the esteemed and most holy virgin, the Lady Agnes, daughter of the most excellent and illustrious King of Bohemia: Clare, an unworthy servant of Jesus Christ and useless handmaid of the Cloistered Ladies of the Monastery of San Damiano,...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']O[/dropcaps]kay, brothers and sisters, this year our fall mission theme is biblical geography." This is not the type of catch phrase that has historically packed 'em in for the big Church mission. To many, the idea of studying geography sounds as...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps] remember growing up with a love for books. It wasn't unusual for me to read a book through three or four times, each time finding intriguing new bits of information about characters and plots that I didn't see before....
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='65' color='' background_color='' border_color='']W[/dropcaps]hat if your friends and family could only draw their conclusions about God based upon observing your life? What would they say? How would they describe God? This was the question posed to me many years ago by a good friend....
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='65' color='' background_color='' border_color='']W[/dropcaps]hy do you Catholics add all those traditions to the Bible? Jesus told the Pharisees, "You nullify the word of God in favor of your traditions that you have handed on" (Mark 7:13). This is a typical question posed to...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='65' color='' background_color='' border_color='']W[/dropcaps]hen reading the Bible do you see only trees and no forest? This Bible teacher explains how to step back and see Scripture's single basic theme. The Holy Bible - for some, the very words evoke feelings of warmth and wisdom,...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']1[/dropcaps]601 "The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life, is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring; this covenant...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']L[/dropcaps]et us take our stand on the tower, leaning with all our strength on Christ, the most solid rock, as it is written: He has set my feet on a rock, he has guided my steps. Thus firmly established, let us begin...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']P[/dropcaps]REFACE This translation of St. Bonaventura's "Itinerarium Mentis ad Deum" is addressed to undergraduate students of the history of philosophy who may wish to read a work of a great medieval Franciscan thinker. I have used the Latin text of the Franciscan Fathers contained...