‘God Has Collected Your Tears’
Franciscan Media
July 8, 2025
I don’t think you can get to a place of being open to God’s grace unless you feel that your lament has been heard.
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Revelations of Grace
Franciscan Media
July 7, 2025
As Catholics, we find our houses and our world haunted by a sense that the objects, events, and persons of daily life are revelations of grace.
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Creation Is a Ladder to God
Ilia Delio, OSF
July 6, 2025
Penance, poverty, humility and compassion were the values that forged Francis into a “cosmic brother,” one who was related to all creatures and to the elements of creation.
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St. Francis Encounters the Crucified Christ
Ilia Delio, OSF
July 5, 2025
The Franciscan path to God is an inversion of monastic values. Rather than fleeing the world to find God, God is to be found in the world. The idea that “the world is our cloister” finds its root in Francis ...
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Mary Magdalene, Visionary
Mark Etling, PhD
July 4, 2025
The Gospel of Mary is one of many Scriptures that was not accepted by the Church for inclusion in the New Testament.
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Savor the Sacraments
Franciscan Media
July 3, 2025
Although we are baptized and confirmed only once, the effects of these sacraments continue to affect us daily.
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St. Francis and the Body of Christ
Christopher Heffron
July 2, 2025
Thomas of Celano, an early friar and author of three hagiographies of Francis, wrote that the saint “burned with a love that came from his whole being for the sacrament of the Lord’s body.”
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