Franciscan Spirit

Prayerful people walk with God every day. This walking can be done kneeling beside your bed to thank God for a restful sleep or to ask the Lord to guide your day.

Despite the year we've had, we at Franciscan Media live in hope. Father Mark Soehner, OFM, explains.

One of the great mysteries of our faith is how it was possible that God, infinite and all good, could come down upon this earth and become human like us.

I know that the Jesus being born with no fanfare in a cave to a young mother seems almost too wonderful to be true—but it is.

Like every family—like the human family—all of them are a little wounded. We are a little chipped or cracked, held together and shored up by those who care for us, but we all journey to Bethlehem hoping for healing.

The suffering, injustice, and devastation on this planet are too great now to settle for any infantile gospel or any infantile Jesus.