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Simplicity Is Our Goal

Richard Rohr, OFM October 24, 2024

When you agree to live simply, the ethics and economics of war reveal themselves in all their evil and stupidity.

Just Keep Showing Up

Patricia Breen McNeil October 24, 2024

Prayer, at its most basic form, is about two things: authentic friendship and continuing to show up.

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Gaze upon a Loving God

Ilia Delio, OSF October 23, 2024

When you agree to live simply, you have little to protect and no desire for acquisition, even for acquisition of any “moral capital.”

Celebrating Each Other’s Gifts

Bruce Epperly October 23, 2024

In honoring our unity in diversity, we give God glory and bring out each other’s gifts for service.

Study & Theology: Studying My Way to God

Darleen Pryds, PhD October 23, 2024

God has a way of hooking us. God hooked me through academic study. As a freshman in college, I was taking a Medieval History course when I was assigned The Little Flowers of St. Francis. I hated it. I found it overly sentimental and syrupy. I also longed for the kind of spiritual community the book showed me was possible. And that’s how God hooked me: by introducing me to something I rejected on the one hand, and found compelling on the other. It was the semester I left institutional Christianity and started to search for God.

Meet Me Where I Am

Stephen Copeland October 22, 2024

When we have encountered great loss or trauma, sometimes it can feel like the world moves on while our hearts continue to ache.

Was Jesus Born in December?

Pat McCloskey, OFM October 21, 2024

Do we celebrate Christmas in December because we know he was born in that month? If not, why is his birth celebrated then?

Brother David Paz, OFM

Daniel Imwalle October 21, 2024

Brother David’s life as a missionary has taken him to Guatemala, Mexico, and parts of the Southwest.

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A Prayer for Pope Francis

Shannon K. Evans October 21, 2024

We have a responsibility to pray for Pope Francis as a spiritual leader and decision-maker, so that he may continue guiding the Church with wisdom and compassion.