Thomas Griffin 3/4/25 (For SpiritualDirection.com)
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Let Us Begin: New Book on the Life and Power of St. Francis
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“Whoever denies me before others, I will deny before my heavenly Father” (Matthew 10:33).
In between teaching jobs, I worked for a construction management firm in New York City. Even though the job is very fast-paced, I was lucky enough to be able to attend daily mass during my lunchtime. This short time of prayer in the middle of my day always allowed me to escape to a place of peace and grow in my relationship with God. It also opened the door to multiple conversations.
Being public about one’s faith can be a difficult balance to find. We want to be honest about the importance we place on our relationship with Christ but we also don’t want to sound as if we are overly pious or looking down on others who might not be living their faith like we are. Ash Wednesday is about as public as Catholics get in witnessing to their faith. Our relationship with Christ and the Church is prominently displayed on our foreheads for the entire world to see.
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Thomas Griffin is the chairperson of the religion department at a Catholic high school on Long Island where he lives with his wife and two sons. He has a masters degree in theology and is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Empty Tomb Project: The Magazine. He is the author of Let Us Begin: Saint Francis’s Way of Becoming Like Christ and Renewing the World.
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