by Jennie Murphy | Oct 1, 2025 | Blog Articles
“That all may be one” (John 17:21). Lord, how difficult your word is for me today! It is a call to fraternity and therefore a call to openness to your Father who is the Father of all. Lord, give us the understanding in our hearts that only with the...
by Jennie Murphy | Sep 26, 2025 | Blog Articles
Five months after Pope Francis’s death, his voice remains alive and prophetic, especially in his call for a universal fraternity inspired by Saint Francis of Assisi. His passion for the care of creation endures as a precious legacy for the Church and for...
by Jennie Murphy | Sep 19, 2025 | Blog Articles
Our essence is to receive Love, to be Love, to radiate it. When we hurt our relationship with our fellow brothers and sisters, or when we are complicit in separating ourselves from them, it is as if we were amputating ourselves, destroying ourselves, and separating...
by Jennie Murphy | Sep 12, 2025 | Blog Articles
Eight hundred years ago, in 1225, St. Francis of Assisi wrote the Canticle of the Creatures: a prayer of praise that many Italian students still learn by heart in school today. Ten years ago, in 2015, Pope Francis published the encyclical Laudato Si’: one of the...
by Jennie Murphy | Sep 5, 2025 | Blog Articles
Jesus tells us not to worry about our lives. This is easier said than done, so he gives us the example of the birds for reassurance: “they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them” (Matthew 6:26). It is good to be...
by Jennie Murphy | Sep 3, 2025 | Blog Articles
At the end of July 2025, former director, Fr. Joe Laramie, SJ, our new Assistant National Director, Grace Mazza Urbanski, and part of the USA team headed to Paray-le-Monial, France. They traveled there on pilgrimage to attend a gathering hosted by the international...
