Minute Meditations

hands holding a cross

Take Up Your Cross

Those few friends and family members who stayed behind and perhaps risked their own lives for the sake of their friend and Lord have denied themselves to follow Jesus.
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Parable of the Two Criminals

Paradise, or the kingdom, is also a reality that is not off in some distant future, but is, as Jesus says, here “with me today.”
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rosary with cross

God Suffered Out of Love

After Francis’ death, Bonaventure will talk about the “transformative power of love.” Love is what moved the heart and mind of the saint from Assisi, and it is love that is the greatest force for change and good in our ...
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Jesus on the cross

The Joy and Suffering of Love

The love of Jesus Christ that leads to his willing embrace of the crucified earthly destiny that appeared before him is both a model for how we are called to love and a revelation of God’s self-offering of control out ...
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two people skydiving

Control, Surrender, Loss

If love is the free surrender of one’s control, then suffering is the involuntary taking of that control away.
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Sinners Make the Best Contemplatives

Jesus said he came for the sick, not the healthy. He dined with sinners, not church leaders. So who’s “special”?
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woman looking into a valley

Poverty of Spirit

I feel the grandeur of creation and my smallness in it. For a moment I have no worries, only the sense of God’s abiding grace in the world.
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