“As we stand before the Lord,” Friar Frank Jasper says, “it doesn’t matter what the color of our skin is or if we’re rich or poor.” All that matters is what’s in our hearts. What’s most important is our own unique individuality.  

Enjoy this week’s Franciscan Spirit video!

With the birth of the #MeToo movement, there is now a spotlight on how men and women treat each other. But hope remains, Frank Jasper, OFM, says, because we are all children of God. Father Frank even draws parallels to Saints Francis and Clare and uses them as models of respect and solidarity.

I regularly read the prayer petitions that come in on the monitor at St. Anthony Shrine where I live. In a two-week period, just before Christmas, I was captivated by several requests for prayers for little boys with cancer.