Franciscan Spirit

My lifelong curiosity prompts me to ask: 1) When and how did Ash Wednesday originate? 2) What was the specific thinking that inspired this practice? 3) Can you recommend reference sources on this subject?

Along with our losses, we are invited to find holiness and health amid the broken circumstances of our lives.

God is love. That is all we know and all that matters in the end.

How do we move beyond our busyness and listen to God’s voice?

Depression has taught me that perhaps the greatest act of trust is to know that how God heals us is way less important than how he loves us.