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Sister Helen Prejean: Legalized Vengeance and Waking Up to Justice
Byfranciscansisters February 24, 2022May 28, 2026

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Spotify | Email | RSSSeason 5, episode 5, of Messy Jesus Business podcast, hosted by Sister Julia Walsh. Photos by Scott Langley. “We are called to create, where nothing exists.” – Sister Helen Prejean LISTEN HERE: IN THIS EPISODE: In this episode of Messy Jesus Business podcast, Sister…

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Deacon Pablo Perez: Finding Faith Behind Bars
Byfranciscansisters November 11, 2021May 28, 2026

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Spotify | Email | RSSSeason 4, Episode 9 of Messy Jesus Business podcast, hosted by Sister Julia Walsh. “I go, and I think I’m bringing Church to them; Church is already there.” – Deacon Pablo Perez LISTEN HERE: IN THIS EPISODE: Sister Julia Walsh talks with Deacon Pablo…

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Sister Tracey Horan: Love Without Borders
Byfranciscansisters August 19, 2021May 28, 2026

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Spotify | Email | RSS “There’s nothing that I wouldn’t give to just tear that wall down.” – Sister Tracey Horan Season 4, Episode 3 of Messy Jesus Business podcast, hosted by Sister Julia Walsh. LISTEN HERE: IN THIS EPISODE: In this episode of Messy Jesus Business, Sister…

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Bridget Alexander: Solutions Steeped in Community
Byfranciscansisters May 13, 2021May 28, 2026

In this episode of Messy Jesus Business podcast, Sister Julia Walsh talks with Waking the Village co-foundress Bridget Alexander about building a non-profit centered on building community, the issue of youth homelessness and the mess of social justice work.

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Women lead amidst the mess
Bythoransp14 January 28, 2021May 28, 2026

I recently sat across my desk from one of the prophets of the #SaveAsylum movement. The leaders of this organization are an eclectic group of migrants, activists, church and community members from Arizona and Sonora, Mexico, who united in the past year to restore access to asylum at the US-Mexico border. The prophet in front…

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Ellen Walsh-Rosmann: Feeding the Hungry during COVID
BySister Julia Walsh September 17, 2020May 28, 2026

In episode ten, Sister Julia speaks with Ellen Walsh-Rosmann, a farmer, a Food Service director in a rural school district, and an owner of food hub and a farm-to-table restaurant. They discussed the systemic challenges of feeding the hungry during the COVID19 pandemic and how the ordinary person can eat in a way that helps builds justice and cares for creation.

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“I thirst,” an invitation to transformation and presence in the midst of COVID-19
BySister Alison McCrary, SFCC April 16, 2020May 28, 2026

I heard the voice of God last night. It came not from my church a few blocks up the road, the historic St. Augustine where Holy Thursday’s Mass of the Last Supper was taking place, but from around the corner. It came from a man sitting on a bench in Tuba Fats Square in the…

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Sacrifice, not self-care
BySteven Cottam September 12, 2019May 28, 2026

Make sure to put your own oxygen mask on first. When a plane is experiencing difficulties and the oxygen masks drop, you have to put your own oxygen mask on before you can put on the masks of others. You need to always make sure to take care of yourself first. — self-help speakers everywhere…

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Loyalty and memory in response to the signs
BySister Julia Walsh July 18, 2018May 28, 2026

He said to them … “In the evening you say, ‘Tomorrow will be fair, for the sky is red’;and, in the morning, ‘Today will be stormy, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to judge the appearance of the sky, but you cannot judge the signs of the times.” – Matthew 16:2-4 Much…

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Don’t blink
BySteven Cottam January 1, 2018May 28, 2026

There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as of being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of – do you want to know? – you are capable of living in poverty; you are capable of standing almost any kind of maltreatment, abuse, etc. But you do not wish to…

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Finding St. Francis and choosing to stand on the margins
ByAnnemarie Barrett October 4, 2017May 28, 2026

It was early 2013 and I was fresh from three months of formation with Franciscan Mission Service. I had just arrived in Bolivia, South America, to live and serve for at least the next two years as a Franciscan lay missioner. I had spent the autumn months of 2012 in daily classes learning about Franciscan…

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I’m so glad you called
BySteven Cottam August 23, 2017May 28, 2026

His son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; I no longer deserve to be called your son.’ But his father ordered his servants, ‘Quickly bring the finest robe and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Take the fattened calf and…

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