St. Francis and the Gift of Love
Maureen O'Brien
January 24, 2025
The Franciscan way encourages us to be present to love—right here, right now.
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Maureen O'Brien
Maureen O'Brien's award-winning short stories and poems have been published widely in magazines and anthologies. She lives in Connecticut, where taught creative writing to teenagers for 25 years. She holds an MA in creative writing and a BA in philosophy and religion. She is the author of What Was Lost: Seeking Refuge in the Psalms and Gather the Fragments: My Year of Finding God’s Love (Franciscan Media).
A Window Washed Clean
Maureen O'Brien
January 23, 2025
What do you want clarity on right now? Sometimes it takes such patience in prayer, waiting for guidance, of choices we need to make, things we might need to say to a loved one, or paths to take.
Prayer for Priests
Maureen O'Brien
January 14, 2025
Have you known a priest (or priests) along your journey who has helped transform your faith, trust, and hope?
God Is Unchanging
Maureen O'Brien
January 8, 2025
Sometimes we feel at a loss for how many things in our lives age and break, run out, wear down, need replacing.
God’s Center Is Everywhere
Maureen O'Brien
December 30, 2024
“God is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.”
—St. Bonaventure
In Praise of Being Lighthearted
Maureen O'Brien
December 28, 2024
Many of us, in a truly admirable way, place our faith at the center, and are quite disciplined. But can we also invite lighthearted elements into our spiritual practices?
‘Not Me, but God’
Maureen O'Brien
December 26, 2024
And the miracles, all of them, move forward, as miracles do, and this new one, a boy who believed, who chronicled miracles about holy bread.