title: Making Friends Is an Art!
author:  Julia Cook 
description: Every Child or adult will be able to relate to at least one of the colored pencils in this story so artfully created by Julia Cook. Her book is picture perfect in showing all of us what it takes to build relationships and make friends. --Kristine J. Melloy, Ph.D., President Elect of the Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders
zlib_text: BUT I HAVE CALLED YOU FRIENDS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  BUT I HAVE
  
  
  CALLED YOU
  
  
  FRIENDS
  
  
  Reflections on the Art of Christian Friendship
  
  
  by
  
  
  MOTHER MARY FRANCIS, P.C.C.
  
  
  IGNATIUS PRESS SAN FRANCISCO
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Cover art: The Last Supper by Duccio (ca. 1260-1319)  
  Museo dell’Opera Metropolitana, Siena, Italy  
  Scala/Art Resource, N.Y.  
  
  
    
  Cover design by Riz Boncan Marsella  
  
  
    
  © 2006 by Ignatius Press  
  All rights reserved  
  ISBN 978-1-58617-080-6  
  ISBN 1-58617-080-5  
  Library of Congress Control Number 2006921888  
  Printed in the United States of America
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  In Memory of
  
  
  our friend
  
  
  Andrée Emery
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  CONTENTS
  
  
  [Foreword](index_split_005.html#filepos3124)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [The Common Denominator: Simple and Demanding](index_split_006.html#filepos6112)
  
  
  * [“. . . As I Have Loved You”: Loving Others into Lovableness](index_split_007.html#filepos27325)
  
  
  * [The Path to Peace: Action, Reaction, and Interaction](index_split_008.html#filepos50086)
  
  
  * [Genuine Friendship in a Seedbed 