Formation

Franciscan Spirituality –Transcendent or Immanent

Transcendent and Immanent by Bret Thomlin In my last teaching, I spoke of God as being poor. It may have been a little confusing. In fact, at one point one person asked if God was all powerful. I said, yes, he is both. She joked that God is bipolar! And, he is. So I got [...]

God, Transcendent and Immanent

By Bret Thoman, SFO In my last teaching, I spoke of God as being poor. It may have been a little confusing. In fact, at one point one person asked if God was all powerful. I said, yes, he is both. She joked that God is bipolar! And, he is. So I got to thinking [...]

A Biblical Walk Through the Mass

Interview With Author on Finding Scripture in the New Translation By Kathleen Naab LITTLETON, Colorado, MAY 5, 2011 (Zenit.org).- Many Catholics might not realize just how much an hour at church on Sunday mornings puts them in contact with the Bible. In addition to the readings and psalm, “practically everything in the liturgy has some [...]

Are You Growing Holier?

By Dr. Jeff Mirus | April 12, 2011 catholicculture.com We want to be holy and we pray and work toward that end. But if we are honest and self-aware, we also realize that we do some picking and choosing among the various paths and regimens of holiness, selecting those which are most congenial to our [...]

A lifestyle of Penance

It’s not just a season. ~Cricket Aull, SFO~ ON COMPASSION & PRAYER “The first thing we are called to do when we think of others as our enemies is to pray for them. This is certainly not easy. It requires discipline to allow those who hate us or those toward whom we have hostile feelings [...]