Reckoning with Our Culture of Gun Violence

Daniel Imwalle July 25, 2022

After praying for the victims in Uvalde, Pope Francis said, “It’s time to say, ‘Enough!’ to the indiscriminate trafficking of guns.”

Reel Time with Sister Rose

Rose Pacatte, FSP July 25, 2022

Sister Rose Pacatte, FSP, reviews “Top Gun: Maverick, ” “Downton Abbey: A New Era, ” and “Hustle ” in our August issue!

Sharing the Word for July 25, 2022 – Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time – Year 2

Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk July 25, 2022

The apostles are all human, holding their gifts from God is earthen vessels: limited, hard working, reflecting the sufferings of Jesus, aware that all the blessings of their apostolic ministry come from the dying of Jesus, and are directed toward the manifestation of the risen Christ.

Deceptive Distractions

Albert Haase, OFM July 24, 2022

The goal of prayer is not some thoughtless state of consciousness. Prayer’s real goal is a surrendered heart of love. And we attain that surrender by having a heart-to-heart conversation—including sharing our distractions and mental diversions—with a God who loves us unconditionally.

Saint Sharbel Makhlouf

Franciscan Media July 24

Saint Sharbel Makhlouf was a Lebanese Maronite Rite monk, one of the Eastern Catholic Churches who follow a slightly different liturgy and canon law. We in the Latin or Roman Rite often forget that we have sisters and brothers in the East. Saint Sharbel is a good reminder of the wider Church.

An Accidental Gift

Theresa Doyle-Nelson July 23, 2022

Pontius Pilate had a sign put upon Jesus’ cross–written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek–that read “Jesus the Nazorean, the King of the Jews” (John 19:19). Those who despised Jesus wanted this sign down! But Pilate refused. “What I have written, I have written” (John 19:22).

Saint Bridget of Sweden

Franciscan Media July 23

Saint Bridget of Sweden was married, a mother of eight, and the foundress of a monastery for men and women. She spent her final days in Rome seeking to correct Church abuses for which she received much opposition.

Sharing the Word for July 23, 2022

Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk July 23, 2022

The kingdom of God is a state in which everything has been brought together into the will of God. Everything has become what God intended it to be.

Franciscan Media: We Happy Few

Christopher Heffron July 22, 2022

We at Franciscan Media are a kind of family—a loving, lovingly dysfunctional, unit.

Reading Aloud

Bond Strong July 22, 2022

Author Meghan Cox Gurdon makes a compelling case for the importance of not just adults reading aloud to children, but also adults reading aloud to each other. Stories have the potential to move couples, families, and friends in similar directions—closer to God.