Grace
Navigating Difficulties with Grace
As followers of St. Francis, we are called to navigate life’s challenges with grace, humility, and compassion—drawing strength from our faith and our Franciscan values as we encounter difficult situations.
Acting on the Beatitudes
This friar points to three ways we can better understand and live the joy of the beatitudes in our everyday lives.
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Grace Is Always Here
Reflect As James Finley at the Center for Action of Contemplation sometimes says, “You are being loved into existence.” This is an ever-present reality. Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing—here, now—God is filling up your spirit, soul, and body with ...
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Becoming Radically Open
If I’ve learned anything as a friar, it is that being a Christian means leaving behind everything and being totally fine with accepting whatever God gives me—big or small, happy or painful.
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The Grace of Today
Reflect Sometimes the demands that are placed upon us—which are often self-inflicted demands—fuel expectations that mysteriously bind themselves to us. We become bonded to a false reality rooted in lack, and therefore become blinded to an unfolding reality that is ...
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Open Yourself to Grace
Grace cannot be confined or contained or constrained. We don’t dole it out to the deserving. We spill it…to anyone and everyone.
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7 Things Catholics Need to Know about Suicide