To Live Like St. Francis
Terry Hershey
December 27, 2024
St. Francis was a heartfelt ally to everything and everyone around him.
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Open and Vulnerable
Franciscan Media
January 21, 2018
Each of us longs for harmony. We feel it deep within us, the instinct to live free of shame, naked and vulnerable before our God and the world. We long to know ourselves fully and not be afraid of who ...
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The Gift of Woman
Franciscan Media
January 20, 2018
When God sees woman, what he sees is not simply spirit, but her physical body, itself a reflection of him. In the physical existence of woman, God’s longing for a relationship with the created world and his desire for the ...
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Union with God
Franciscan Media
January 19, 2018
By loving his children, the pilgrims, and all those who approached him, Padre Pio united himself more intimately with God. Those who were rehabilitated by Padre Pio’s union with eternal love could not be amorphous creatures; they had to be ...
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Mary, the Ultimate Mother
Franciscan Media
January 18, 2018
Good mothers want nothing more than to ease the pain of their children. They would rather endure the pain themselves than see their children suffer with it. That is exactly the kind of good mother Mary is—she would rather endure ...
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God's Masterpiece
Franciscan Media
January 16, 2018
God looked at the world he had created, teeming with life, stars flung across the heavens, every bird and bug and animal and flower in its most glorious state, the rivers and mountains and valleys and seas, and man—perfect in ...
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Faith in Motion
Franciscan Media
January 15, 2018
Again and again, Pope Francis reminds us that we’re to go out to meet people where they are, not wait for them to come to church. While he would be the first to remind us that the Eucharist is the ...
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