Minute Meditations

Clare protects and offers us a contemplative spirituality for both women and men, for celibates and partnered, for extroverts and introverts (although, I admit, more for introverts), for people with souls and bodies, and even people both Christian and non-Christian. ...

“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. St. Paul had written that Christ became poor for ...

Francis was “centered” long before that term became popular among spiritual writers. His values became more and more aligned with God’s, but Francis did not use that as a reason to become self-righteous. That is a temptation many of his ...

The Franciscan path to God is an inversion of monastic values. Rather than fleeing the world to find God, God is to be found in the world. The idea that “the world is our cloister” finds its root in Francis ...

The journey of prayer for Franciscans is the discovery of God at the center of our lives.

We all know that the three cornerstones of the Christian message are faith, hope, and charity.