Love As St. Francis Did
Maureen O'Brien
February 17, 2025
To fully love as Francis did, there is no compartmentalizing. Can I follow this example?
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The Desire to Know God
Franciscan Media
November 2, 2017
When he created us, God placed inside us the desire to know him and to be united to him. Just as we experience physical hunger pangs when we need to fuel our bodies, we experience spiritual hunger pangs—angst that nothing ...
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The Good News Is Joy
Franciscan Media
November 1, 2017
Joy is the gist of the Christian Good News. Yet, only if we open wide our senses will we be able to drink from the source of this joy. Only then will the Good News prove truly good and ever ...
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Opening Ourselves to God
Franciscan Media
October 30, 2017
I would like to emphasize the beauty of a simple contemplative prayer, accessible to all, great and small, the educated and those with little education. It is the prayer of the Holy Rosary. In the Rosary we turn to the ...
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Prayers of the Heart
Franciscan Media
October 28, 2017
An admirer of Mother Teresa once gifted her with her own personal “calling card.” Teresa liked the card so much that she had copies made and regularly handed them out to people for the rest of her life. Written on ...
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A Call to Joy
Franciscan Media
October 27, 2017
Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves. They never get around to being the particular poet or the particular monk they are intended to be ...
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The Good Shepherd
Franciscan Media
October 26, 2017
Many sheep do not recognize the presence of the Good Shepherd in the Church today and insist on wandering off on their own, expecting to enjoy the false freedom of living independently. They allow themselves to be deaf to the ...
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