Minute Meditations
God Is Always Good
Richard Rohr, OFM
November 8, 2025
The Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins crystallized so beautifully the effect that John Duns Scotus’ teaching has on mystical minds: Yet ah! this air I …
Pray the Words of St. Francis
Franciscan Media
November 7, 2025
One of my favorite authors is the great Hoosier science fiction writer, Kurt Vonnegut. A theme he often plays with in many of his novels is the notion that human beings are becoming more machine-like in their dependence on technology ...
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Francis of Assisi, Wedded to Poverty
Christopher Heffron
November 6, 2025
“And to this poverty, my beloved brothers, you must cling with all your heart, and wish never to have anything else under heaven.”
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Joy in Creating
Franciscan Media
November 5, 2025
The joy and fulfillment came in the creating, in the daring to create, day after day after day.
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‘I Was the Beloved’
Franciscan Media
November 4, 2025
I needed to remember who I was in the midst of this loss of control and rejection. I was the beloved.
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Downward Mobility
Franciscan Media
November 3, 2025
Downward mobility. It invites each of us to recalibrate.
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Promise of the Promised Land
Martin J.P. Gianotti
November 2, 2025
It wasn’t until God’s people utilized the lesson from the desert that they made Jericho’s walls fall to the ground.
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