
‘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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A Deepening Love
Franciscan Media
February 4, 2018
As the initial rush of love becomes something deeper and more lasting, it becomes easy to take the other person for granted, losing our spirit of understanding and our will to serve with love. Every day we need to seek ...
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Made in God's Image
Franciscan Media
February 2, 2018
We all live in danger of believing the lie that we are not enough like God as we are and that something other than God will give us what we need to feel full and free. But we also live ...
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Wisdom from Mary
Franciscan Media
January 31, 2018
Our Lady said that the rosary can stop wars, and can bring world peace. We have to do what she said, and live good lives. There’s no other plan from heaven that’s so specific, for what we’re going through now. ...
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Where Charity and Love Prevail
Franciscan Media
January 30, 2018
It is useless to talk when things speak for themselves in such an eloquent manner. There is a clear and precise way of finding God, and we have so much need of him. There are moments in everyone’s life when the ...
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The Desires of Our Souls
Franciscan Media
January 29, 2018
We as human persons are made with infinite desires that only God can fulfill. But because we’re fallen, we tend to live at the level of our superficial desires—desires for comfort, fun, fame, wealth, pleasure, success. These desires are not ...
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'I Am God and You Are Not'
Franciscan Media
January 28, 2018
A woman on a much-needed retreat sought to know more about God and herself. She prayed, “Who are you and who am I?” For three days she prayed this refrain over a hundred times but no answer came. As she ...
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