Pause+Pray

There is no shortage of bad news at our fingertips: televisions, radios, smartphones, and computers are delivery methods that feed our collective anxieties. Let’s turn them off and focus on the Good News instead.

Making time to just sit and be still can seem countercultural to what we are told to do daily. It's in the moments when we allow ourselves to be still that we can encounter a peace that is life-giving.

Time can be an adversary or an ally. But what’s comforting is that it always moves forward.

“Humanity in every age, even today, looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and destiny,” said Pope St. John Paul II.

Today, reflect on the incredible power of the words from Romans 8:38–39.

Both St. Francis and St. Bonaventure are said to have visited La Verna, a mountain donated to the Franciscans by Count Orlando of Chiusi, at times in their lives where they were wrestling with their divine calling.