St. Anthony, Help Me Find…Peace
Darleen Pryds, PhD
June 9, 2025
St. Anthony’s peaceful way of being still impresses after 800 years.
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Darleen Pryds, PhD
Darleen Pryds, PhD, is the academic director of the Master of Theological Studies-Franciscan Theology online degree at the Franciscan School of Theology (FST) in San Diego, California. She has taught at FST since 2001 and has a special interest in lay Franciscan spirituality and leadership.
Carlo Acutis and the Gift of Presence
Darleen Pryds, PhD
May 2, 2025
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” Often attributed to John Lennon, this quote from American journalist Allen Saunders speaks to me especially this week of April 21, 2025, as I write this piece…
We Are Interconnected
Darleen Pryds, PhD
April 24, 2025
When the realities of life hit, and you have lost everything, what is left is the stunning beauty of our relationships with one another, with this world, and with God.
Living ‘The Canticle of the Creatures’
Darleen Pryds, PhD
March 24, 2025
Francis’ experience with loss illustrates a path to deeper relationships, including with God.
All Souls’ Day: The Beauty of Each Life
Darleen Pryds, PhD
November 2, 2024
On my first visit to Rome, I rushed to see St. Peter’s. It was a church I had drawn when I was in third grade
Study & Theology: Studying My Way to God
Darleen Pryds, PhD
October 23, 2024
God has a way of hooking us. God hooked me through academic study. As a freshman in college, I was taking a Medieval History course when I was assigned The Little Flowers of St. Francis. I hated it. I found it overly sentimental and syrupy. I also longed for the kind of spiritual community the book showed me was possible. And that’s how God hooked me: by introducing me to something I rejected on the one hand, and found compelling on the other. It was the semester I left institutional Christianity and started to search for God.
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