Prayer

Dear Reader: What’s Love Got to Do with It?

Christopher Heffron January 24, 2025

If pressed, it would be impossible for me to pick a particular text or tome from Friar Murray Bodo that I value most.

María Ruiz Scaperlanda January 24, 2025

“Bella, can you put it here?” I’m lying next to 3-year-old Xavier, hoping that we will both get to take a nap.

Fr. Gary Caster January 13, 2025

Perhaps the most beautiful truth about prayer is that it is never really ours.

Paul Lipowski January 13, 2025

Prayer is the cornerstone of Franciscan life, fostering a deep relationship with God.

Roch Niemier, OFM January 11, 2025

Francis himself realized that prayer or fasting cannot change one’s heart. Only God can.

Jack Wintz, OFM January 10, 2025

In writing to a Poor Clare, St. Bonaventure said, “Your heart is to be an altar of God. It is here that the fire of intense love must burn always.”

Brother David Steindl-Rast January 9, 2025

“One is the human Spirit,” but the human Spirit is more than human because the human heart is unfathomable.