Pause. Then Pray.
Christopher Heffron
April 29, 2024
St. Francis of Assisi understood the spiritual and psychological toll that life could bring.
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Quiet Prayer
Franciscan Media
January 21, 2017
Father, there are ways in which I have grown quiet. Some hopes and dreams in my heart are too long-awaited, too sacred to be the stuff of idle chatter. Lord, I trust your faithfulness and your goodness and your love. ...
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Proclaim the Beatitudes
Franciscan Media
January 19, 2017
It is always a joyful experience for us to read and reflect on the Beatitudes! In proclaiming the Beatitudes, Jesus asks us to follow him and to travel with him along the path of love, the path that alone leads ...
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Make It Worth It
Franciscan Media
January 16, 2017
Through the sacrifice of the Mass, we have the opportunity to join our sufferings to Christ’s sufferings, to fill up that which is lacking in his afflictions for the sake of the Church. If we can attach meaning to our ...
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The Right Path
Franciscan Media
January 14, 2017
To figure out how we want to spend our time is our birthright. To develop our imagination is our sacred responsibility. To continue on the path we know is right for us—not necessarily for anybody else—with very little, if any, ...
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