During a GENERAL AUDIENCE on 27 January 2010 in Paul VI Audience Hall, Pope Benedict XVI elaborates on St. Francis of Assisi. The following is an except, you can access the entire text here. “From love for Christ stems love for others and also for all God’s creatures. This is yet another characteristic trait of Francis’ spirituality: the sense […]
Ongoing Conversion
This week of Prayer for Christian Unity
The traditional period in the northern hemisphere for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is 18-25 January. Those dates were proposed in 1908 by Paul Wattson to cover the days between the feasts of St Peter and St Paul, and therefore have a symbolic significance. In the southern hemisphere where January is a vacation […]
Pope Benedict XVI Christmas Eve Homily
St. Francis is mentioned throughout Pope Benedict’s homily on 12/24/2011 (This is an excerpt, please read the entire homily here: https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/homilies/2011/documents/hf_ben-xvi_hom_20111224_christmas_en.html ) Christmas is an epiphany – the appearing of God and of his great light in a child that is born for us. Born in a stable in Bethlehem, not in the palaces of kings. In […]