Dr. Andres F. Leone is a Palliative Care physician, pastor, meditation teacher and author.
The Way of Francis. Part 5. By Andres Leone. 🙏🏽🤎✝️. “Your trials did not come to punish you, but to awaken you—to make you realize that you are a part of Spirit and that just behind the sparks of your life is the Flame of Infinity.” —Paramahansa Yogananda.
The Way of Francis. Part 4. By Andres Leone. 🙏🏽🤎✝️ «Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy.» —Henri J. M. Nouwen.
The Way of Francis. Part 3. By Andres Leone. 🤎🙏🏽✝️. “What you seek is seeking you.” — Rumi
The Way of Francis. Part 2. By Andres Leone. 🤎🙏🏽✝️🫶🏽. The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today. —St. Francis Of Assisi.
06/12/2026
Today I had the honor of speaking to the South Carolina Synod ELCA Assembly about a topic very close to my heart: meditation.
I was blessed to be joined by my good friend, Bishop Emeritus Rev. Herman Yoos. Together, we shared our experiences teaching contemplative prayer over the past several years and spent time meditating together.
What a wonderful opportunity to introduce others to this transformative practice and to reflect on how silence, stillness, and prayer can help us become more aware of God’s presence in our lives. 😊🙏🏽🤎 🧘🏻
The Way of Francis. Part 1. By Andres Leone. ✝️🤎🙏🏽. “Let us begin again, for until now we have done nothing.” —Francis of Assisi.
El Camino de Santiago. Part 15. By Andres Leone. ➡️💙🐚💛 “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
— Marcel Proust.
El Camino de Santiago. Part 14. By Andres Leone. 💛🐚💙➡️. “Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul.”
— Thomas Merton.
El Camino de Santiago. Part 13. By Andres Leone. ➡️🐚💛💙 “The greatest achievement of the Camino is not arriving in Santiago. It is discovering that the journey has transformed the traveler.”—Andres.
El Camino de Santiago. Part 12. By Andres Leone. 🐚➡️💙💛. “The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”