Franciscan Spirit
The Catholic Roots of St. Valentine’s Day
Although the mid-February holiday celebrating love and lovers remains wildly popular, the confusion over its origins led the Catholic Church, in 1969, to drop Saint Valentine’s Day from the Roman calendar of official, worldwide Catholic feasts.
Franciscan Inspirations: Mary at the Cross
Both the devotion of Mary and the women witnessing Jesus’ death—and the gift of Mary as mother to us—are truths we cannot be without.
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Franciscan Inspirations: Power Failures
One of the sure signs of maturity occurs when a young person begins to be accountable for his or her acts and decisions. It’s one of the nicest presents a young person can give his or her parents.
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Franciscan Inspirations: Don’t Think Little of Yourself!
I hate to see people suffer because they worry about the wrong things and misread what God thinks of them. They feel guilty for past sins—sins for which they have been forgiven.
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The Face of Jesus
Ancient tradition tells us that Luke, the author of the third Gospel, was a physician.
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Jesus, the Passion, and the Garden of Gethsemane
We speak of one section of the Gospels, that which narrates Jesus’s life from the Last Supper until his death and burial, as chronicling his “passion.”
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