Find what you’re looking for
Struggling with depression and anxiety is not a reality one can just pray away. It is important to know that we can always seek help—medical, therapeutic, and spiritual.
The Lord searches day and night to find you. Pride and fear block our hearts from being found because they focus on the self. Our conversion begins when we refocus our life to Christ.
The simplest way to describe God’s poverty and humility is in terms of love. Love gives itself away—this is God’s poverty.
Maybe because Francis was not an intellectual he could perceive the mystery of God in its pristine beauty—the extraordinary divine in the ordinary human.
Social activist and mystic Dorothy Day said, “I speak to people as if they are angels.” Day saw the holiness in everyone she met, especially those whom society views as nobodies as a result of their poverty and houselessness.
Caught up in routine we forget to take satisfaction in what we do, while others struggle to find gainful employment. Let us pray to cherish our hard work.
The love of the Father for the Son is the same divine love for all creation.
All truth is from God, and God’s truth is that we are to love God, and loving God will show us how to love our neighbor.
There is a part of God’s Self that can only be communicated to us through nature. Whether we are taking a hike or merely walking down a sidewalk, may we accept the invitation to experience our Creator in the great outdoors.
The practical conclusion of the first teaching of St. Francis is that if we listen and pray, God will show us what we are to do with our lives.
