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Are you too busy to be bored? I hope not. It might seem like an odd thing to celebrate, but in our world of nonstop digital interaction and hurried work and family life, boredom is something of a rarity.
As the world around us thaws and blossoms, new truths about God catch our attention in everyday ways. Let your observation of the changes brought by spring point your soul back to the resurrection.
Jesus said he came for the sick, not the healthy. He dined with sinners, not church leaders. So who’s “special”?
Can we begin the morning in the most gentle way possible? Simply being? Just knowing in the silence that God is already here.
I feel the grandeur of creation and my smallness in it. For a moment I have no worries, only the sense of God’s abiding grace in the world.
In his 2024 message for Lent, Pope Francis writes, “Lent is a season of grace in which the desert can become once more—in the words of the prophet Hosea—the place of our first love (Hos 2:16–17).”
Strive to be an encouraging friend, with full knowledge that God is in the situation and will make all work in his favor in some way.
Jesus taught us how to pray authentically, and the Lord’s Prayer provides us with a structure to offer our words up to God.
Joseph and Mary’s life does not fit into ordinary human categories.
When we consider what humans have done to our environment, a Franciscan heart should cry! Thinking of the beauty of Francis’ Canticle of Creation and then seeing
