The Meaning of Divinization
Fr. James Brent O.P.
October 18, 2022
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“God’s secret purpose for creating the world was to divinize human beings by grace.” – Fr. James Brent, O.P.
The Grace of Filial Adoption
Fr. James Brent O.P.
October 13, 2022
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“What we receive in our baptism is amazing. Something of the eternal Son’s very own relation to the Father, a true share in his eternal Sonship, has been planted in our hearts by grace. As a result of such a stupendous grace, something of the Son’s own Life of standing before the Father in the Spirit of Love is now the life of our hearts too.” – Fr. James Brent, O.P.
The Letters of St. Paul of the Cross: ‘Despoiled of Everything’
Amy Knight
October 11, 2022
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“I see that God desires that you be despoiled of everything and have no happiness beyond the happiness of doing the Holy Will of the Highest Good, reposing with deep humility on his loving bosom.” -St. Paul of the Cross
The Grace to Be Jesus
Fr. James Brent O.P.
October 5, 2022
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“There is no union greater or more radical than the oneness between Jesus Christ and his followers who live by grace.” – Fr. James Brent, O.P.
How God Called to Me to Start the Avila Institute
Dan Burke
October 4, 2022
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“When we give him our ‘yes’ – which, in the end, is the only thing that is ever really ours – He will multiply the fruits in astonishing ways.” – Dan Burke
The Filial Prayer
Fr. James Brent O.P.
September 27, 2022
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“True life is found in living the one prayer that saves the world – the filial prayer of Jesus Christ.”
Angel Guardians and God’s Fatherhood
Thomas Griffin
September 27, 2022
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The word “angel” literally means “messenger of God.” Today we celebrate the feast day of Michael, Gabriel, Raphael and the archangels. Many people might think
The Life of a Secular Franciscan
Barb Szyszkiewicz
September 26, 2022
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“Franciscan spirituality is not primarily an environmental spirituality: it’s incarnational. It’s all about how God humbled Himself to be born in the lowliest of circumstances and live among us, and die for us in the most excruciating, humiliating way.” – Barb Szyszkiewicz
The Name in Our Hearts
Fr. James Brent O.P.
September 21, 2022
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“It is time for everyone in the Church today to wake up to the reality that the first Christians knew so vividly. It is time to become aware of the grace of the Name dwelling in our hearts.” – Fr. James Brent, O.P.
The Meaning of Charity
Fr. James Brent O.P.
September 12, 2022
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“Charity, or friendship with God, is a great mystery indeed, but human friendships provide an obvious model or analogy for purposes of understanding and living in friendship with God.” – Fr. James Brent, O.P.
