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Tides of Prayer

Ronald Rolheiser, OMI September 9, 2025

Prayer has a huge ebb and flow. When we try to pray, sometimes we walk on water and sometimes we sink like a stone.

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Be Not Afraid

Colleen Arnold, MD September 9, 2025

In the Old Testament, God told Joshua, “I command you; be strong and steadfast! Do not fear nor be dismayed, for the LORD, your God, is with you wherever you go” (Joshua 1:9).

Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican for the canonizations of Sts. Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis Sept. 7, 2025.

Carlo Acutis, Pier Giorgio Frassati canonized

OSV News September 8, 2025

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The greatest risk in life is to waste it by not seeking to follow God’s plan, Pope Leo XIV said, proclaiming

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Divine Communion

Richard Rohr, OFM September 8, 2025

Isn’t it a consolation to know that life is not a straight line?

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Over the course of his three-year public ministry, many came to follow Jesus on the way. Andrew, one of the Twelve, whose brother was Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard John the Baptist preaching and came to follow Jesus.

Franciscan or Roman Catholic?

Pat McCloskey, OFM September 8, 2025

I like what I read in St. Anthony Messenger and enjoy other products from Franciscan Media. One question keeps coming back to me: Are you Franciscan or Roman Catholic?

I ask this because these days I feel much closer to the Franciscans than to the Roman Catholic Church in which I was baptized and yet is plagued by many terrible scandals.