Br. Gilberto Cavazos González, OFM, is a friar of the Order of Friars Minor and a scholar of Christian spirituality, rooted in the Franciscan and Clarian traditions and shaped by Latino (Tejano) Catholic life. His work explores the relationship between spirituality, culture, and pastoral practice, with particular attention to medieval mystical texts and Latino/a spiritual traditions, and he is the author of Greater than a Mother’s Love, The Spirituality of Francis and Clare of Assisi, Beyond Piety: The Christian Spiritual Life, Justice, and Liberation, and Tradiciones of Our Faith. He currently holds the John Duns Scotus Endowed Chair in Franciscan Spirituality at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and is completing a book on the Marian spirituality of the early sixteenth‑century mystic and pastor, Sister Juana de la Cruz Vazquez Gutierrez.
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Br. Gilberto Cavazos González, OFM, is a friar of the Order of Friars Minor and a scholar of Christian spirituality, rooted in the Franciscan and Clarian traditions and shaped by Latino (Tejano) Catholic life. His work explores the relationship between spirituality, culture, and pastoral practice, with particular attention to medieval mystical texts and Latino/a spiritual traditions, and he is the author of Greater than a Mother’s Love, The...
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Although there are several studies dedicated to the lives of Francis and Clare of Assisi, Gilberto Cavazos-González's Greater Than a Mother's Love is the first to investigate their spirituality in the context of family relationships. He delves into the writings of Francis and Clare and illustrates how both used observations of their various...
Who doesn’t want a liberated life? Jesus offers us liberation as we grow in a Christian spiritual life. But first we need to liberate our concept of Christian Spirituality from ideas that relegate it to Church on Sunday, new age self help, devotional or ascetical practices, or fundamentalist aggression. Traditionally, Christian spirituality...
After years of research and writing, Santa María: Priestly Mother of Mercy is complete—now it just has to get past the series editors. The book explores...
As the feast of the Portiuncula approaches each August 2, I find myself returning to the small chapel where Francis first gathered his brothers and where Clare stepped into the life of the Gospel. This year, I want to bring that memory home — not to Assisi, not to a congress hall, but to the cotidiano: the ordinary, unremarkable ground where most of us actually live our faith. What does a thirteenth‑century friar’s walk into a Sultan’s camp, or a papal gathering of religious leaders, have to...
Pietro di Bernardone was a prosperous cloth merchant in the Umbrian commune of Assisi. Proud of his commercial success, he traveled frequently to France in search of the finest textiles for his business. Like many merchants of the emerging merchant class, he trained his sons in the skills necessary for economic advancement: negotiation, accounting, and fluency in French. Despite his wealth, however, Pietro lacked one thing that money could not secure. He belonged to the minores, the merchant...
As a young man, I was introduced to the spiritual practice called the "examination of conscience." It is a good way to reflect on yourself and your life and improve it in line with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The examination calls us to consider the wrong we've done in thought, word, or deed. But it also calls us to consider our sins of omission, which is to say the good we could have done and didn't.
Back in 2011, I was listening to a friend complain about the plight of ethnic and racial...
