A Personal Liturgy of the Hours: Penance

Introduction:The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.-Amen. God, come to my assistance:-Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:— as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Hymn:  Seek Ye First Seek ye first theContinue reading “A Personal Liturgy of the Hours: Penance”

The Canticle of the Creatures: Creation as Revelation of God

The Major Legend of Saint Francis by St. Bonaventure, Chapter Nine: Aroused by everything to divine love, he rejoiced in all the works of the Lord’s hands and through their delightful display he rose into their life-giving reason and cause. In beautiful things he contuited Beauty itself and through the footprints impressed in things heContinue reading “The Canticle of the Creatures: Creation as Revelation of God”

Leisure as Opposition to the World

The relationship between Poverty, Penance, and the “world” is a common theme in most of the reflections I write.  Whenever I need to define either Poverty or Penance, I invariably do so in reference to the word “world.”  I like to suggest that in the Franciscan charism the core practice of both Poverty and PenanceContinue reading “Leisure as Opposition to the World”