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Reflect  In Brother Mike Johnson’s podcast “A Franciscan Heart in the World” he reflects on John 8:1-11. This scripture invites us to see our own failings, mistakes, defects of character. What stones do you carry? Brother Mike offers, “Put down ...

Reflect  According to the parable, the mustard seed is “the smallest of all seeds…” (Mk 4:30-32). What does it mean that Jesus says that the Kingdom of God is like a mustard seed? Something tiny, unseen, a lowly seed that ...

Reflect  How often do you grow frustrated and impatient with those that God has placed in your life to instruct? Those difficult “students” are often a “thorn in the flesh” to help us grow in holiness.  Pray  Heavenly Father, you who ...

What kind of king gets nailed to a cross for a throne? What kind of king gets buried in a borrowed tomb? What kind of king was Jesus? And what kind of kingdom does he rule?

Josephine Bakhita said that if she met her torturers she would kiss their feet, for without them she would not have become a Christian or a woman religious.

Reflect When we pray the Our Father and ask God for our daily bread, what are we really asking for? In John 4:34, Jesus tells His disciples that His food is to do the will of God. It is what ...