Carlo Acutis: You Belong to the Ages
Christopher Heffron
April 25, 2025
I have always categorized you, Carlo, as “the millennial saint,” but that is limiting. You are timeless.
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We are Temples of the Holy Spirit
Franciscan Media
November 9, 2017
Jesus brings us a message that is startling and new: Each of us is called to be the dwelling place of God. Saint Paul, in his Letter to the Corinthians, says, “Do you not know that you are the temple ...
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The Sacred Word
Franciscan Media
November 8, 2017
God’s plan is to bring everything together under Christ. And each one of us plays a part in that sacred plan. Our faith is a beautiful, developing drama, a beauty whose end we cannot see. Starting with the first day ...
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God, Our Protector
Franciscan Media
November 7, 2017
God knows the dangers that surround our souls. He doesn’t want anything to impede the goal of our spiritual life: union with him. God knows our every weakness and our need for continuous, loving guidance to avoid the dangers that ...
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Mary, the Perfect Mother
Franciscan Media
November 6, 2017
Mary’s is the ultimate birth story. She walked through her life at Jesus’ side, loving him with a real human love and at the same time understanding his divine purpose. She bore the tension of living in perfect joy and ...
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The Desire to Know God
Franciscan Media
November 2, 2017
When he created us, God placed inside us the desire to know him and to be united to him. Just as we experience physical hunger pangs when we need to fuel our bodies, we experience spiritual hunger pangs—angst that nothing ...
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The Good News Is Joy
Franciscan Media
November 1, 2017
Joy is the gist of the Christian Good News. Yet, only if we open wide our senses will we be able to drink from the source of this joy. Only then will the Good News prove truly good and ever ...
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