Remember the Sabbath
Ragan Sutterfield
January 19, 2025
Christians have often been poor at practicing the Sabbath, imagining it to be a Jewish practice for which Jesus showed apparent disregard.
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Strive to Serve
Franciscan Media
March 17, 2017
Lord, teach me to be generous. Teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labor and ...
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Gratitude Is Second Nature
Franciscan Media
March 16, 2017
Living honestly before God and in relation to all creation lessens our sense about what we “deserve.” Gratitude becomes second nature. People are then not seen as competitors for scarce resources but as men and women loved by God as ...
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Renewed Enthusiasm
Franciscan Media
March 15, 2017
Dear Lord, send your Spirit and consecrate every one of us with its anointing, so that your Church, with renewed enthusiasm, may bring good news to the poor, proclaim liberty to captives and the oppressed, and restore sight to the ...
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Love Is in the Details
Franciscan Media
March 14, 2017
My hope is not that things will go as I planned, but that the Lord will make himself known, in the faces of my loved ones, in the unexpected joys of family life that pop up right in the middle ...
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Honest Living
Franciscan Media
March 13, 2017
We engage in works of mercy not so that we can present Saint Peter at the pearly gates with our list of accomplishments but because we cannot live honestly before God and with others unless we are attentive to human need. ...
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Mary Mothers Us
Franciscan Media
March 11, 2017
Mother Mary loves us all with a pure, selfless, and steadfast motherly love. She tirelessly calls to our hearts and souls. Her utmost aim is to bring us to her son. - from Our Lady of Fatima
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