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Erin Franco

Per crucem ad lucem

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2011 6 Jan

I came across something in my meditation this morning that I’d like to share with all of you.

Christians in the dark Middle Ages coined a beautiful little phrase that helped them to keep focused on Heaven in their usually short and often difficult lives:

per crucem ad lucem, or “Through the cross to the light.”
I don’t have a major cross of pain or suffering in my life right now (merciful God be praised!). 
But I know a few people who do. 

Per crucem ad lucem my friends. I am praying for you!
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I'm a south Louisiana girl, Catholic wife, writer, speaker, and mother of six. Since I started my blog way back in 2009, life has been a roller coaster of babies, plot twists and a plane crash or two. I've been chronicling things here as I've been learning to love and suffer and laugh and trust in the goodness of God in the ordinary and the extraordinary--with a little espresso and a lot of Divine Mercy. Read More…

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