
‘God Has Collected Your Tears’
Franciscan Media
July 8, 2025
I don’t think you can get to a place of being open to God’s grace unless you feel that your lament has been heard.
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Loved and Sought by Christ
John Moses
April 7, 2018
There is no failure for those who are loved and sought by Christ. He loves you, even though you may feel that your faith does not have its old drive. To feel oneself a great and vital Christian is a ...
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A Kingdom Turned Upside Down
Casey Cole, OFM
April 6, 2018
Against the values of the world, Jesus gave up his power in heaven to live as a poor outcast on earth. Loving his people as a shepherd loves his sheep, he led with mercy over judgment, justice over greed, reconciliation ...
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Love God, Love Your Neighbor
Charles Camosy
April 5, 2018
It is tempting to think of peacefulness as merely the refusal to be violent—especially when we live in a culture that emphasizes the duty to leave others alone. But if it is truly Christian peacefulness, it must involve loving action ...
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Just Show Up
Casey Cole, OFM
April 3, 2018
It may sound simplistic, but it is one of the most important things that has ever happened to my prayer life: Just show up. Even if prayer is nothing more than a box to be checked off in our day, ...
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Sons and Daughters of God
John Moses
April 2, 2018
What Thomas Merton sought was an awareness of “the presence of God in this present life.” His abiding witness in his several vocations is that men and women might find their deepest freedom in God; and, holding firm to the ...
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Kiss the Cross of Christ
Franciscan Media
March 28, 2018
Jesus calls us to follow him on his own path of humiliation. When at certain moments in life we fail to find any way out of our difficulties, when we sink in the thickest darkness, it is the moment of ...
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