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- Avoiding innovations and instead following approved tradition
- Giving God credit for all good work
- Saint John of the Cross: “The soul that is not humble is easily deceived by the devil…
- St. John of the Cross: “The poor in spirit is content with the very substance of devotion itself”
- Not letting others guide your decisions
- Envy: a major expression of the prophesied lack of charity in the end-times
- Saint Francis of Assisi and the Mission to the Saracens
- Bl. Giles of Assisi: “The world is so corrupt that we can neither speak well of what is good, nor speak ill of what is evil”
- A bent rod must be bent the other way to become straight
- The Intention of Saint Francis Regarding the Observance of Poverty
- The Passion: Saint Francis’s Ordinary Subject of Meditation
- Bl. Giles of Assisi: Useful Science and Useless Science and the Preachers of the Word of God
- Life of Brother Juniper of Assisi (d. 1258)
- Outside the Church no salvation: proven by Scripture
- B. Jacopone de Todi: How Does Man Arrive at Contempt for Himself?
- The Peril of Prideful Knowledge
- Saint Francis of Assisi: A Perfection Unknown Until Now in the Church
- St. Francis’ first and last intention
- Fraternal Love According to the Spirit
- Principal quality of a Preacher
- The one who seeks God in his comforts
- Living according to the Gospel
- On the Final Reform and Purification of the Church
- The Capuchin Reform: A Return to the Life of the Apostles and Saint Francis
- Bl. John of Parma and the Reform of the Order
- St. Teresa of Avila: Do Not Trouble Yourself About Temporal Matters
- Humility and Wisdom
- Leo of Assisi: the importance of personal works
- St. John of the Cross: Choosing the Bitter Path
- Renouncing Common Property at the Council of Trent
- Some Rules for Discerning Sin with a Rightly Formed Conscience
- Acknowledging One’s Faults to Receive Mercy
- Jacopone of Todi: True charity loves God even when He does not grant our requests, and loves others just as much when they offend us
- Service to others begins with the pursuit of virtue
- Enduring for the Love of Christ
- The Friars Minor Were Defenders of the Immaculate Conception as Early as the Middle Ages
- F. Francis of Jesi: “The more government was lacking in human terms, the more the government of God was manifest”
- Bl. Angela of Foligno: “We need nothing but God alone”
- The Narrow Path to Eternal Life
- Launching of the Fraternity of the Holy Cross
- Launching of the Fraternity of St. Ferdinand III
- The Third Order of St. Francis: first Third Order ever created
- Stopping people from taking God’s name in vain
- Catholics should avoid all crude or rude language
- The Soul in Search of God
- Christ, Model of Humility and Voluntary Abjection
- Importance of considering what Jesus-Christ and His Mother have suffered
- The Mysterious Secret of the Humiliations, Affronts, and Contempts that Jesus Christ Received
- Tribulation is more beneficial for the soul than prosperity
- What is charity?
- Remarkable Letter from St. Peter of Alcantara to St. Teresa of Avila
- St. Peter of Alcantara - To what extent the heart should act in the exercise of prayer
- The heart should act more than the mind in the exercise of prayer
- When it is ilicit to baptize a baby
- The Passion of Christ was St. Francis’ usual meditation
- St. Teresa of Avila: What is true life, if not one free from fear of death or worldly events?
- Love One Another: A Mark of Jesus Christ’s True Disciples
- Jean-François of Reims, Capuchin (d. 1660): When Are Rash Judgments Mortal Sins? With Some Advice for Confession
- Living in the state to which God has called us
- Saint Francis of Assisi: In the End Times, the Friars Will Live the Itinerant Life
- Saint Francis of Assisi didn’t promise obedience to Antipopes