“Francis of Assisi is not for everyone. Even many saints would not be comfortable with Francis. He appeals primarily to the heart. He would never be accused of being lukewarm, for he lived his life afire. Francis found God in real life. He led a life of radical devotion to God and to service of other people, especially poor people.

Typically, Francis attracts the average person more than the scholar. Devotions popular with many Catholics are associated with Francis. The Christmas crib or Nativity scene, Stations of the Cross, the Stigmata, and the garden statues surrounded by birds and flowers, to name a few.

Francis found his inspiration in the Gospels. More precisely, he found it in the stories in which Jesus walked among the people of the streets and talked with equal ease to children, tax collectors, lepers, foreigners, and Pharisees. Francis experienced the good news in the flesh in poor people and in needy people, in fig trees and in mustard seeds, in sheep and in goats. In short, Francis practiced an incarnational, sacramental spirituality.

To say that Francis’ vision is sacramental means simply that he was always drawn to life, to the preciousness of the everyday. He shunned intellectualizing and instead looked for God in the flesh, in the earth, and in simple things. He preferred to pray with his feet, with his hands, and with his voice raised in song. Not only did Francis meditate on the suffering of Jesus, but he bore the wounds of Jesus in his very flesh when he received the stigmata.”

- excerpt from the book “Praying with Francis of Assisi”

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“The virtues and grace

Human virtues acquired by education, by deliberate acts and by a perseverance ever-renewed in repeated efforts are purified and elevated by divine grace. With God’s help, they forge character and give facility in the practice of the good. The virtuous man is happy to practice them.

It is not easy for man, wounded by sin, to maintain moral balance. Christ’s gift of salvation offers us the grace necessary to persevere in the pursuit of virtues. Everyone should always ask for this grace of light and strength, frequent the sacraments, cooperate with the Holy Spirit, and follow his calls to love what is good and to shun evil.”

- from the Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1810, 1811

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The Love that Satisfies by Christopher West

By releasing Deus Caritas Est (God Is Love) as his first encyclical, Pope Benedict XVI, building on the legacy of Pope John Paul II, presents the Church with a glorious vision of love and human sexuality, one that cuts to the core of all human struggles. The Holy Father’s message profoundly shows how agape, the self-sacrificial love of God, empowers romantic love, eros, with life-giving and meaningful existence.

Today, the term “love” has become one of the most frequently used and misused words, a word to which we attach quite different meanings. We speak of love of country, love of one’s profession, love between friends, love of work, love between parents and children, love of neighbor, and love of God. Amid this multiplicity of meaning, however, one in particular stands out: love between man and woman, where body and soul are inseparably joined and human beings glimpse an apparently irresistible promise of happiness. This would seem to be the very epitome of love: all other kinds of love immediately seem to fade in comparison (Deus Caritas Est, n.2).

The Love that Satisfies, by Christopher West, focuses on this last kind of love—the love that promises such happiness but so often leads to despair; the love that seems to be the epitome of all love but which relatively few people find in a measure that satisfies.

Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light

This historic work reveals the inner spiritual life of one of the most beloved and important religious figures in history.

During her lifelong service to the poorest of the poor, Mother Teresa became an icon of compassion to people of all religions; her extraordinary contributions to the care of the sick, the dying, and thousands of others nobody else was prepared to look after has been recognized and acclaimed throughout the world. Little is known, however, about her own spiritual heights or her struggles. This collection of her writing and reflections, almost all of which have never been made public before, sheds light on Mother Teresa’s interior life in a way that reveals the depth and intensity of her holiness for the first time.

Compiled and presented by Fr. Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C., who knew Mother Teresa for twenty years and is the postulator for her cause for sainthood and director of the Mother Teresa Center, MOTHER TERESA brings together letters she wrote to her spiritual advisors over decades. A moving chronicle of her spiritual journey—including moments, indeed years, of utter desolation—these letters reveal the secrets she shared only with her closest confidants. She emerges as a classic mystic whose inner life burned with the fire of charity and whose heart was tested and purified by an intense trial of faith, a true dark night of the soul.

Published to coincide with the tenth anniversary of her death, MOTHER TERESA is an intimate portrait of a woman whose life and work continue to be admired by millions of people.

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The Praises of God by Saint Francis of Assisi:

“You are the holy Lord God Who does wonderful things.

You are strong. You are great. You are the most high.

You are the almighty king. You holy Father, King of heaven and earth.

You, are three and one, the Lord God of gods; You are the good,

all good, the highest good, Lord God living and true.

You are love, charity; You are wisdom, You are humility;

You are patience, You are beauty, You are meekness;

You are security, You are rest; You are gladness and joy, You are our hope, You are justice;

You are moderation, You are all our riches to sufficiency.

You are beauty, You are meekness;

You are the protector, You are our custodian and defender;

You are strength, You are refreshment. You are our hope;

You are our faith, You are our charity; You are all our sweetness,

You are our eternal life, Great and wonderful. Lord, Almighty God, Merciful Savior. “