Franciscan Spirit

On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wines. —Isaiah 25:6

No one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. —Luke 10:22

Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof; but only speak the word, and my servant will be healed. —Matthew 8:8 The American Declaration of Independence says we have an “unalienable right” to the pursuit of ...

Keep awake therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. —Matthew 24:42 “Come, Lord Jesus,” the Advent mantra, means that all of Christian history has to live out of a kind of deliberate emptiness, a ...

“The Gospel always needs to be proclaimed!” says Roger Lopez, OFM. But this friar understands that proclaiming the Gospel in the 21st century can be challenging but also exciting: podcasts, videos, and other forms of digital media can be a ...

I once heard a priest refer to everyone he met as a “saint.”