Elizabeth of Hungary: Beloved Sister in a Troubled World
Donna Foley, OFS
November 16, 2024
May I tell you the story of a woman who was married at 14 and dead at 24? Does that sound like the making of
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Embracing God in Aloneness
Susan Saint Sing, PhD
November 12, 2024
Susan Saint Sing, OFS, PhD, is the author of God’s Love Song with Fr. Murray Bodo and Francis and the San Damiano Cross: Meditations on Spiritual Transformation. She
Live the Gospel Life
Daniel P. Horan, Phd
November 3, 2024
What would it look like to live in the now? The question itself might sound a little tired or clichéd, but the truth is that to live in the now is to live the freedom of the children of God.
Singular Holiness
Murray Bodo, OFM, and Susan Saint Sing
October 31, 2024
Francis’s greatness, I think, comes from his ability to transfer, and transform, his internal conversations to the physical reality of the external world.
Friendship and Self-Giving Love
Ilia Delio, OSF
October 30, 2024
For Clare of Assisi, friendship with Christ entailed a friendship of self-giving love.
Prayer on the Road
Richard Rohr, OFM
October 29, 2024
One of the earliest accounts of Francis, the “Legend of Perugia,” quotes Francis as telling the first friars, “You only know as much as you do.”
Trusting the Place Where We Are
Maureen O'Brien
October 28, 2024
The life of St. Clare offers us so many ways to model a life of faith in Christ.
Poverty Exists in the Heart
Sr. Rosemary Stets, OSF
October 26, 2024
For Franciscans today, material poverty is not the greatest concern but rather an acknowledgment that their “poverty of being” is essential.
Carlo Acutis: Miracles, Holy Bread, and a Teen Saint in the Making
Maureen O'Brien
October 25, 2024
“Not me, but God,” Blessed Carlo Acutis is quoted as saying. When this author visited Assisi, she discovered the growing excitement surrounding the millennial teenager’s life, legacy, and sainthood cause.
I’d Like to Say: It’s Time to Act Like St. Francis
Gregory Cellini, OSF
October 25, 2024
In our world of differing political opinions, this Franciscan brother asks you to consider what St. Francis would do to cultivate respect and understanding.