Franciscan Spirit

Seven Days with Solanus Casey: A Creative Spirituality

“We do well to remember how very short, after all, it is till our suffering and our time of merit, too, will be over. Let us offer everything, therefore, to the divine Spouse of our souls, that He may accept it as helping Him to save immortal souls—our own included.”

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Seven Days with Solanus Casey: An Attitude of Gratitude

“Would that we were appreciative as we ought to be! How happy we would be simply in our creation and the faculties we are endowed with and the divine promises of eternal reward.”
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Seven Days with Solanus Casey: A Prophetic Friar

“Happiness in this world consists in the hopes we foster. Little children are happy in the vivid hopes that animate them.”
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Seven Days with Solanus Casey: Holy Witness to History

“Many are the rainbows, the sunbursts, the gentle breezes—and the hailstorms—we are liable to meet before, by the grace of God, we shall be able to tumble into our graves.”
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Seven Days with Solanus Casey: Relying on Mary

“The Blessed Virgin Mary! Next to Jesus Himself, and always with Him, may she ever be our refuge and our stay during this pilgrimage on earth.”
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Seven Days with Solanus Casey: Simple, Sublime Faith

“Let us thank God ahead of time for whatever He foresees is pleasing to Him, leaving everything at His divine disposal.”
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Franciscan Media: We Happy Few

We at Franciscan Media are a kind of family—a loving, lovingly dysfunctional, unit.
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