Franciscan Spirit Blog

Holy, Wholly Healthy: When Your Suffering Can’t Be Seen

When we do not see someone’s symptoms, we might assume that the person is not suffering.
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Journeying toward God

There are times when the interior journey is impeded by the refusal or inability to make an external journey.
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People in Raeford, N.C., pray after viewing the body of George Floyd June 6, 2020. Demonstrations continue after a white police officer in Minnesota was caught on a bystander's video May 25 pressing his knee into the neck of George Floyd, an African American, who was later pronounced dead at a hospital.(CNS photo/Jonathan Drake, Reuters) See FLOYD-PROTESTS-HOMILIES-ROUNDUP June 8, 2020.

Let Us Pray: Defiantly Catholic

Our Church is God’s Church, and we belong to God. Church is the place we go to nurture our faith. It is where we go to be community.
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Let Us Pray: ‘Seek First the Kingdom’

For St. Francis of Assisi, the impetus for prayer was everywhere around him.
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Let Us Pray: Music As Prayer

Music takes me back, holds me in the moment, and inspires hope for the future—all at once.
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Let Us Pray: Endless Love

God opened a door deep within me, from a place I had never experienced or even understood existed.
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Prayer Transforms Us

Praying is about seeing, hearing, serving; it’s about abiding in God’s loving and merciful presence. But certain conditions are essential to prayerfulness.
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