Faith and Family for June 5: Pentecost Sunday
Faith and Family team
June 1, 2022
This week we celebrate Pentecost Sunday. In the Gospel, Jesus appears to the disciples and they receive the Holy Spirit.
Find what you’re looking for
Search Results for: node – Page 313
Saint Justin Martyr
Franciscan Media
June 1
Saint Justin Martyr was the first recognized philosopher of the Christian era. Converted to Christianity, he continued his love of philosophy and used it to defend the faith.
Sunday Soundbite for June 5, 2022
Greg Friedman, OFM
June 1, 2022
The dramatic story of the descent of the Holy Spirit tells us how the Holy Spirit can break down walls we may put up between peoples, races, and cultures. What we see as obstacles, the Spirit can use to create a new unity.
Sharing the Word for June 1, 2022
Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk
June 1, 2022
Discipleship is not easy. It involves sharing the joy of Jesus and the Father, but also includes being the object of the world’s hatred.
The Art of Accompaniment
Patricia Breen McNeil
May 31, 2022
Both Mary and Elizabeth accompanied each other in their time of need. As disciples, we are all called to that same art of accompaniment with each other. What do I do to accompany another?
Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Franciscan Media
May 31
The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is about both two women and two men. The Blessed Virgin Mary goes to visit Elizabeth to assist her in her final days of pregnancy. But as she greets Elizabeth, the babe in Elizabeth’s womb—John the Baptist—leaps for joy at the presence of Jesus in Mary’s womb. Great mysteries of life are at play here.
Sharing the Word for May 31, 2022
Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk
May 31, 2022
The Visitation scene reminds us that we too, participate in God’s plan of redemption. We have all been called to take joy in God’s intervention in our lives.
Sisterhood of Saints: Joan of Arc
Melanie Rigney
May 30, 2022
Until the bitter end Joan of Arc was confident she had remained obedient to God.
Holy Family Mysteries
Dolores Francis
May 30, 2022
A wife and mother offers five new mysteries of the rosary, inspired by family life.
Saint Joan of Arc
Franciscan Media
May 30
Saint Joan of Arc has been the subject of many plays and books, and her life is riddled with legend. But we know that she was a very spiritual young woman who led the French in battle against the English. In a politically motivated trial, Joan was condemned to death and burned at the stake.