Minute Meditations

Confessions of a Prodigal Daughter

Judith Costello, MA July 14, 2025

Looking back I see how easy it was to blame God when I was the one who had gone away—forsaking the healing sacrament of God’s grace.

Holy Mary, Mother and Mystic

Murray Bodo, OFM May 20, 2025

Mary’s life, like that of her son, will be a living out of her own canticle

Christlike Parenting

Carie Moore May 19, 2025

To parent with the fruits of the spirit with unconditional love, patience, gentleness, and self-control is to parent biblically.

mother watching over her child while standing at a peer at the ocean.

Death Is a New Beginning

Jim Van Vurst, OFM May 18, 2025

Our faith has a way of answering questions and helping us understand that their deaths and those of all our loved ones are not signs of an ending, but rather a new beginning for them.

red sign with a heart and the word love during a rally

Love Is Our Calling

María Ruiz Scaperlanda May 17, 2025

In a world of silly love songs, it is easy to ask, “What’s love got to do with it?” rather than trust the love that we have already encountered as believers.

a wooden fence with the message "Never stop loving" spray painted on it.

Foundational Love

Richard Rohr, OFM May 16, 2025

Great religion seeks utter awareness and full consciousness, so that we can, in fact, receive all. Everything belongs and everything can be received.

Loving God in Good Times and Bad

Murray Bodo, OFM May 15, 2025

Clare's deep love for God gave her great joy in spite of difficulties in her life.

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