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Website title: Secular Franciscan Order – USA – Following Christ in the footsteps of St. Francis

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We should not miss the opportunity to refocus ourselves in Spirit by becoming sensitive to the call of peace.  All things are in communion with God, and through God with one another.

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Our Father

By Diane Menditto, OFS • National Vice Minister

As we continue our celebration of the “Easter of St. Francis,” our attention now turns to his relationship with God. For the theme of this issue of the TAU, we have chosen the Prayer Inspired by the Our Father (FA:ED, vol.1, p....


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Kathleen Molaro, OFS
National YouFra Commission Chair

Kathleen Molaro, OFS National YouFra Commission Chair

Article 12 may be only one sentence long, but it offers a rich and powerful invitation: to witness to the good yet to come and to seek the purity of heart that frees us to love.

Because of the vocation we have ch...


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Then Jesus said to his disciples,
“Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself,
take up his cross, and follow me.
For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it,
but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.”


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The woman refuses to be put in her place. She takes Jesus’ own image of bread and she transforms it, “Lord, even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from the master’s table.” She reminds Jesus of what He himself had revealed. There was enough bread for everyone, enough for leftovers.


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