Minute Meditations

Will you choose to live with less so you can love more? Will you trust that joy is not something to chase but something to welcome in the present moment? 

Throughout this messy, sweet, chaotic, precious time we have together, we’ll tell each other the best thing, the only thing that really matters: “I love you.”

Each path Francis took on his journey to God led him to a single action: praise of God.

“Rich by reason of its poverty.” That phrase was as difficult to understand in Francis’s day as it is in ours. Celano was not pulling this expression out of thin air.

Throughout this canticle, we have seen how Francis saw God’s goodness, radiance and beauty in all creatures. He saw them indeed as benevolent friends, as brothers and sisters—as family. And now even the reality of death itself becomes “Sister Death” ...

Today, Christian Native Americans seek ways of being equal participants in the life and mission of the Church—as indigenous people.