"Everything that you do in revenge against a brother who has harmed you will come back to your mind at the time of prayer."
Abba Nilus
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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.
"Everything that you do in revenge against a brother who has harmed you will come back to your mind at the time of prayer."
Abba Nilus
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"We become attached to useless, insignificant and entirely worthless matters, substituting these for the love of God and neighbor, appropriating material things as if they were our own or as if we had not received them from God."
Abba Zosimas
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