by Jack Zimmerman, Friend of the Franciscan Sisters-OLPH | Apr 29, 2020 | Franciscan Blog
There are indigenous religious traditions in which people recognize a special connection to a particular “spirit animal” or a totem—a non-human being, either real or mythical, usually an animal, but sometimes a plant, element or celestial body. They can be many things... 
by Jack Zimmerman, Friend of the Franciscan Sisters-OLPH | Apr 2, 2020 | Franciscan Blog
This is a strange time we’re living through, isn’t it? For many of us, our day-to-day world is involuntarily constricted in ways and at a scale we’ve never experienced. We can’t go to work or the gym, visit our friends, pray together in church or sit in a restaurant...