Today’s guest blogger, Joe McHugh, is a spiritual director, retreat leader, teacher, and writer based in the Twin Cities. He contributes regularly to the National Catholic Reporter. His book, Startled by God: Wisdom from Unexpected Places, will be published by Franciscan Media in September 2013. He...
The following is an excerpt from Friar Jack’s E-spirations, a free e-newsletter from Franciscan Media. This meditation is offered by Father Jim Van Vurst, OFM.
The word holiness can have a discouraging effect on people. Some immediately dismiss it, perhaps a bit sadly, because they believe that...
Today we welcome guest blogger Jim Van Vurst, OFM, who, along with Jack Wintz, OFM, writes Friar Jack’s E-spirations.
In his lifetime, Jesus’ mission was not about building himself up. He came to love and to save every human being. And he would do that no matter what the cost—even death on the...
Our guest blogger today is Father Jim Van Vurst, OFM. With Jack Wintz, OFM, he writes the twice-montly Friar Jack’s E-spirations.
Our lived faith is filled with paradoxes—events in our lives that may seem to mean one thing but actually mean the opposite. An almost universal tendency is to judge our...
Today we welcome guest blogger Joe Kay, a writer who lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.
It seems to me that we tend to consider the crucifixion, the resurrection, and Pentecost in two ways primarily. We see them as history, stories about things that happened a long time ago. Or we consider them through theologies...
