Before Msgr. Jerry Bitoon of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples went back to Rome two weeks ago, he gave me a Tau Cross suspended on a brown threading.
For year's I have wondered what this letter "T" meant for Christians.
Lately I knew it was the "Tau Cross."
It is the Greek "Tau" which is, in ancient Tradition, forms the abbreviated symbol of the Cross in New Testament accounts (that is, together with the Rho).
Franciscans have used this widely.
On this Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, we are reminded of a simple and humble lifestyle. Poverty is not literally owning nothing but having a full and loving trust in the abundant provision of God. Pax et bonum!
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