Inspiration

Faith and Family for September 20: The Workers in the Vineyard

Faith and Family team September 14, 2020

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MT 20:1-16A

Jesus told his disciples this parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out at dawn to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with them for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard.

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by Father Greg Friedman, OFM

Virgin Mary, the First Disciple

Lawrence S. Cunningham September 7, 2020

Pope Paul VI wrote succinctly: “The Virgin Mary is held up as an example to the faithful for the way in which in her own particular life she fully and responsibly accepted the word of God and did it….She is ...

Notes from a Friar: What Is Silent Prayer?

Jeremy Harrington, OFM August 4, 2020

Silent prayer can be healing, as Friar Jeremy explains.

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Murray Bodo, OFM August 3, 2020

The bedrock of St. Francis' ministry is the foundation under which his brothers walk today.

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Fr. Angelo Scolozzi, M.C.III.O July 28, 2020

Scarcely two years after the death of Mother Teresa in September 1997, the Archbishop of Calcutta requested that Pope John Paul II dispense with the five-year waiting period required before beginning the process of beatification and canonization.