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Oct 2023
28m 28s

4 Truths from St. Francis of Assisi

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St. Francis of Assisi loved nature and talked to birds, but is there more to him than that? Of course there is! The life of St. Francis of Assisi is filled with incredible examples of doing God’s will and emptying oneself for God’s sake. There is so much we can learn from St. Francis and Dr. Edward Sri outlines four of those lessons in this episode.

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It is essential that we set aside our feelings as we strive to do God’s will because more often than not, it will be difficult to do God’s will.

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