Franciscan Spirit

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Our Relationship with God

Each one of us is embraced with God’s love. This union is not dependent on whether we worship God or even know God exists.

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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.

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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‘Seek First the Kingdom’

For St. Francis of Assisi, the impetus for prayer was everywhere around him.
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Endless Love

God opened a door of love 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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The Assumption of Mary

What does Catholicism teach about the assumption of Mary? And why is this event contemplated in the fourth glorious mystery?
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