What Waiting Reveals
Murray Bodo, OFM
March 25, 2022
We can be still, and let the Word send down His Spirit.
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Murray Bodo, OFM
Murray Bodo, OFM, is a Franciscan priest and a member of the Franciscan Academy. An award-winning author of many books, including Francis: The Journey and the Dream, Surrounded by Love: Seven Teachings of Saint Francis, and Nourishing Love: A Franciscan Celebration of Mary, he writes and lectures on Franciscan spirituality. As an internationally known poet, Fr. Bodo has participated in poetry readings in Europe and the United States. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.
My Love Letter to God
Murray Bodo, OFM
February 14, 2022
God is love. That is all we know and all that matters in the end.
Soul Training with St. Francis
Murray Bodo, OFM
January 7, 2022
Faith leads to hope in the goodness of others, which is shown in charity, or love for one another. Faith, hope, and charity are the only way to peace.
The Journey into God
Murray Bodo, OFM
October 6, 2021
The journey forward into God is a journey backward to an original innocence we never fully recover but where a sort of semi-paradise happens when love turns into charity.
The Brief Life of St. Francis
Murray Bodo, OFM
October 4, 2021
The man who longed to be a knight, a man of war, dies a man of peace, at peace with God, with himself, and with all of creation.
What Mary Taught Jesus
Murray Bodo, OFM
May 12, 2021
What spiritual energy is contained and released for us in the images and scenes we create or receive in the silence of prayerful meditation.
Scenes from the Life of the Virgin Mary
Murray Bodo, OFM
April 24, 2021
As Mary grew older, what would she have thought about her role in the story of our faith tradition? A Franciscan writer imagines just that.