As I read I felt that Bonaventure was leading these students and now me away from a self-centered understanding of prayer to a God-centered understanding.
As Christmas approaches, our thoughts often turn to our favorite stories. For Franciscans we easily gravitate to the moving renditions of Francis at Greccio.
Some people are easily labeled. Their lives seem to be carefully organized and predictable. Robert Lax is not one of them.
Jesus constantly appealed to the imagination, the senses, and storytelling to enliven His message and make it memorable. No doubt Bernardino did the same and at times overdid it.
With humility and understanding we begin to reshape our prayer to be more in tune with the prayer vision of Francis, a vision that never allows us to think “Now that’s done.”