Tag: Spiritual Formation

• Embracing Poverty—I Found Christ

  An excerpt from Path Perilous recounting chosen poverty, quiet companionship with pensioners, and the discovery of Christ in a wounded World War II veteran.

  RMDell’Orfano

  January 14, 2026

  Autobio

  Beacon Hill, Boston, Christ among the poor, Christian memoir, detachment, Franciscan poverty, funeral Mass, hidden holiness, Path Perilous, Purple Heart, Spiritual Formation, veterans, vocation, World War II

• The Untamed Beast

  A parable exposing the limits of bookish religion and the necessity of a lived obedience to Scripture.,

  RMDell’Orfano

  December 26, 2025

  Religion

  Alter Christus, Canadian Indian guanlets, Early Jesuit Traiing, Monastic Wisdom, Obedience, Parable, Repentance, Scripture Lived, Spiritual Formation, St Francis of Assist\, The Narrow Way