The Portiuncula, located in Jerusalem, Ohio, in the Diocese of Steubenville, is home to the Franciscan Lay Apostolate. We are humbly committed to imitating the Gospel life of Christ, and observing the Sacraments. Placing ourselves under strict and holy obedience to the Bishop of Steubenville, the Magisterium, and Father Nick Ward, we follow the Medieval Penitential First Rule of the Third Order of St. Francis, dated 1221 A.D.
Be confident in making your needs known to one another. For each of you, to the extent that God gives you the grace, should love and nourish one another as a mother loves and nourishes her child.
This is what it is to love one's neighbour as oneself, isn't it, this unconditional self-giving; and as with a mother nourishing her child, not only giving, but anticipating need.
This is what it is to love one's neighbour as oneself, isn't it, this unconditional self-giving; and as with a mother nourishing her child, not only giving, but anticipating need.
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