September 22, 2023
Father Phil Ley, OFM Conv
San Antonio may be a half a world away from Assisi, but Father Phil Ley guesses that St. Francis would have found himself at home at a shelter that welcomes immigrants with no place else to go.
Quietude
Reflect Quietude is a beautiful yet underused word, defined as stillness or calmness in a person or place. Though perhaps we think it is especially hard to find in today’s world, it was a challenge for Jesus too. Scripture shows ...
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Sharing the Word for September 22, 2023
Friday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time September 22, 2023Daily Reading from the USCCB: 1 Timothy 6:2c-12 In New Testament times, religious teaching was not offered only by Christian evangelists, but by other teachers as well–purveyors of heterodox religious ...
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Becoming Radically Open
If I’ve learned anything as a friar, it is that being a Christian means leaving behind everything and being totally fine with accepting whatever God gives me—big or small, happy or painful.
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