One of my favorite images regarding the spirit of Advent is 鈥渟tanding on tiptoe.鈥� I got this image while reading Sr. Macrina Wiederkehr, OSB鈥檚 book, Seasons of Your Heart. 鈥淚n spite of all the brokenness of our lives, we are still standing on tiptoe,鈥� Sr. Macrina writes, 鈥渨aiting for the glorious freedom promised us as children of God. This confident waiting is called hope, and our lives are empty without it.鈥�
On August 11, the Franciscan family celebrates the feast of St. Clare of Assisi 1193/94-1253, the first woman to join Francis and his brothers in their new Gospel way of life.
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Tell me, how are we supposed to be the 鈥淧ilgrims of Hope鈥� Pope Francis asks us to be when every headline in today鈥檚 news is worse than they were yesterday?
As Christian-Catholics, we all know the basics of Lent, expressly, Lent is a 40-day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending on Holy Thursday.
The Gospel of Luke relates the birth of Jesus by presenting the first Emperor in all his grandeur and immediately thereafter bringing us to Bethlehem, where there is no grandeur at all: just a poor child wrapped in swaddling clothes, with shepherds standing by.
