Franciscan Saints

Take Up Your Cross

Daniel P. Horan, Phd March 28, 2024

Those few friends and family members who stayed behind and perhaps risked their own lives for the sake of their friend and Lord have denied themselves to follow Jesus.

God Is the Artist

Christopher Heffron March 25, 2024

Though St. Francis of Assisi was, to his core, an institutional Catholic, he found God everywhere, not just under the roof of a church.

Loving Creation, Loving God

Carie Moore March 25, 2024

When we allow ourselves to be as open as a child in our relationship with creation, we are one step closer to bringing about the kingdom of God.

‘My Grace Is Sufficient’

Franciscan Media March 17, 2024

Be at peace in all things, because the enemy, who always fishes in troubled waters, takes advantage of our discouragement to achieve his intentions more readily.

Children of God, Heirs of Heaven

Franciscan Media March 9, 2024

Jesus Christ in such a way that we share in his very own life. In baptism we receive the sanctifying grace that gives us a heavenly life.

Padre Pio’s letter to Raffaelina Cerase, 1914: Baptism is said to be a copy of the death of Jesus. St. Paul says we are baptized “into his death” [Romans 6:3], in imitation of the death of our Redeemer. What the ...