Guarding the Heart

Guarding the Heart

Guarding the Heart Guarding the HeartProtecting Your Peace The Franciscan tradition is remarkably realistic about the power of environment. While it emphasizes inner conversion, it also recognizes that certain places, situations, and relationships can either nourish...
Knowing Your Worth

Knowing Your Worth

Knowing Your Worth Knowing Your Worth The Franciscan Secret Rejection attacks your identity. It tempts us to interpret a closed door as a judgment on our value. We begin to believe that if we were more talented, more successful, more lovable, then the door would have...
The grace of slowing down

The grace of slowing down

The grace of slowing down St. Francis did not rush through life trying to do more, achieve more, or become more important. He discovered that the deepest things in life cannot be hurried.Love grows slowly. Prayer grows slowly. Healing grows slowly. Holiness grows...
Vocation

Vocation

Vocation One of the greatest misunderstandings about vocation is thinking that God is trying to help us find the life that will make us happiest. Many people think it is primarily about finding the perfect role, the perfect ministry, the perfect spouse, the perfect...
Following the Rule

Following the Rule

Following the Rule Franciscan Way of Life To follow the Rule of the Secular Franciscan Order is not simply to belong to an organisation. It is to allow the Gospel to take root in ordinary life until Christ becomes visible in the way we think, speak, work, pray, and...