
‘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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Body and Soul
Franciscan Media
January 26, 2018
Our bodies express our own individual souls. The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that human beings are a unity of body and soul—not just souls temporarily trapped in flesh and bone. Even though our bodies will separate from our ...
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Strengthening Our Spiritual Core
Franciscan Media
January 25, 2018
Good physical workouts should strengthen the heart. Spiritual workouts should do that too. The Bible talks about “the heart” over a thousand times! But Scripture isn’t talking about the physical organ that pumps blood in our chest. It is referring ...
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Be of Good Heart
Franciscan Media
January 24, 2018
“Be of good heart.” I love that because it is true. We should be of good heart no matter what happens because we know—or we should know—that we are Mary’s very own children and that she loves us beyond what ...
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Jesus Is Knocking
Franciscan Media
January 23, 2018
In the book of Revelation, we find a powerful image of the Lord who knocks on the door of our hearts, and waits to be welcomed inside: “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice ...
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Open and Vulnerable
Franciscan Media
January 21, 2018
Each of us longs for harmony. We feel it deep within us, the instinct to live free of shame, naked and vulnerable before our God and the world. We long to know ourselves fully and not be afraid of who ...
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The Gift of Woman
Franciscan Media
January 20, 2018
When God sees woman, what he sees is not simply spirit, but her physical body, itself a reflection of him. In the physical existence of woman, God’s longing for a relationship with the created world and his desire for the ...
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