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by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | Bonaventure, Featured, Franciscans, News, Saints, St. Francis of Assisi | 0 |
“One day when Francis went out to meditate in the fields he was passing by the church of San Damiano which was threatened to collapse because of extreme age. Inspired by the Spirit, he went inside to pray. Kneeling before an image of the Crucified, he was filled with great fervor and consolation as he […]
by bcadmin | Aug 23, 2021 | 2021, A Saint for the Times, Aquinas, Benedict XVI, Blessed Mother, Bonaventure, Columns, Dante's Divine Comedy Paradiso, defense of Jews, Doctor Mellifluus, John Paul II, Kings David and Solomon, News, Platonic/Augustinian tradition, Pope Francis, Pope Innocent II versus anti-pope Anacletus II, Robert Royal, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Saints Dominic and Francis of Assisi, Second Crusade, Sr. Bernard, T.S. Eliot on Crusades, The Catholic Thing, Virgil and Beatrice | 0 |
Robert Royal: Bernard of Clairvaux spoke and wrote with grace and power about “nuptial mysticism,” the love that unites us with the Godhead.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | May 25, 2021 | Bonaventure, decree, Fasano, Hebda, Local News, News, Pentecost, Synod | 0 |
“Throughout this next year, every parish and deanery is to participate in the consultation process, discerning together how we can grow in unity and more vigorously proclaim the Gospel, guided by these focus areas,” he said in the decree.
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The medieval era, we are told, was defined by suspicion and antagonism towards the natural, material world. “In medieval Christian doctrine,” observes academic and author Joel Kotkin in his new book The Coming of Neo-Feudalism, “the world we grasp with our senses is ephemeral, while the spiritual world is more real…. The emphasis on a […]
by bcadmin | Mar 2, 2020 | Bonaventure, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News, St. Thomas Aquinas, Trinity | 0 |
We’ve all the heard one about the three-lobed shamrock and the Trinity. But it turns out that God’s triune nature is imprinted on all creatures, according to two of the greatest doctors of the Church in the 1200s—St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Bonaventure. In the Summa Theologica, Aquinas says that all creatures with an intellect […]
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