
Maintain Your Peace
Monsignor Frank Bognanno
May 14, 2025
Don’t be in such a hurry that you lose your inner peace. It’s bad for your physical and mental health.
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Entangled with Each Other
Franciscan Media
April 26, 2017
We are entangled and bound up together, not as in a net in which we are trapped, but in a network through which we are nourished and find our health. It is humility that teaches us the good of this ...
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True Friends
Franciscan Media
April 24, 2017
The support of friends, especially in times of crisis, is vital to helping us through the emotions that flood and fuel our hearts. They will help us see clearly enough to move through mourning, provide lighter moments, too, especially if ...
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God in the Garden
Franciscan Media
April 22, 2017
In the beginning, God made a garden, rich with compost and humus, a black loam that smelled of dawn. Seeds began sprouting in this soil; trees’ roots wound deep within it as their branches reached toward the sun; grass, clover, ...
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The Joy of the Gospel
Franciscan Media
April 21, 2017
There are so many needy people who hunger—but not for bread, they have plenty of bread—but for God! Go there, to tell this truth: Jesus Christ is the Lord and he saves you. But always go and touch the flesh ...
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Victory of the Cross
Franciscan Media
April 19, 2017
Importantly, the cross does not have the last word. His resurrection does. Without the resurrection, the cross would be a seal of failure. Instead the cross is a sign of victory. – from Meeting God in the Upper Room: Three ...
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The Fruit of Suffering
Franciscan Media
April 18, 2017
Suffering gives you the opportunity to grow. Your trials give you a gift: the opportunity to become the person you always wanted to become. A holier person. A more patient person. A person who endures. A person who is kinder. ...
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