Minute Meditations

Fingerprints of God

The Franciscan tradition has always seen all creation as the footprints and fingerprints of God and therefore sacramental.

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‘Entertaining Angels Unaware’

We are encouraged to welcome strangers, for by doing so, many people have entertained angels unaware (see Hebrews 13:2)
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Outsiders Have a Head Start

The most unsettling aspect of his alternative wisdom, and perhaps the most consistent, is that the outcast is in the head-start position,
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The Great Reconciler

I believe that Jesus is the great reconciler. Picture two lines, one going vertically, the other going horizontally: That’s the cross.
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Conversion Is an Unlearning

Jesus’ teaching is summarized in one line: “The time is fulfilled, and the Reign of God is close at hand. Repent, and believe the Gospel” (Mark 1:15)
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One Who Is Mercy

Under the true sacred, we are at the mercy of One Who Is Mercy.
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Judging Makes Love Impossible

Without a forgiveness great enough to embrace even the obscure side of things, we are burdened (and I do mean burdened) with our own need to explain and to judge everything.
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