Minute Meditations

“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.

The answer God promises to give to you or me will be unique to each of us.

Francis desired to live honestly. If the friars could do without something, then it belonged to a poor person who needed it.

The Holy Spirit is not an extra in Christian holiness. Rather the sending of the Spirit is the completing of the entire beautiful plan of God to share his Life with us.

We must foster a genuine and affectionate connection to our world before we can effect change within it.

In intercessory prayer, I speak to God on behalf of another and their petition, be it a person, situation, or a community.