franciscanponderings

 Ours is a searching God. St Catherine of Siena spoke of God being pazzo d’amore and ebro d’amore – crazed with love for us, drunk...

 As the Church in Ireland celebrates the International Eucharistic Congress (10-17 June), we see how for St Francis the Eucharist was...

Some days after I had given a talk on forgiveness recently, a man told me that he had being putting into practice what we had shared on C...

St Francis, it was said, 'walked this earth as the Pardon of God.' Immersed in God's healing goodness he radiated mercy and fo...

The Acts of the Apostles has been called the Fifth Gospel, the Gospel of the Holy Spirit, because of the strong presence of the Spirit o...

“Fan into a flame the gift given you… the Spirit of love, power and self-control” (2Tim 1:6,7) The ongoing experience of Pentecost i...

There is a beautiful song about the Eucharis that invites us to: “Look beyond the bread you eat -see you Saviour and your God. Look be...