Minute Meditations

All Creatures Great and Small

Jack Wintz, OFM July 27, 2025

Throughout this canticle, we have seen how Francis saw God’s goodness, radiance and beauty in all creatures.

Taste and See How Good God Is

Brother David Steindl-Rast September 27, 2021

Since every thing, every person, every situation comes from the God who speaks, the whole world is Word by which we can live.

Prayer and Action

Brother David Steindl-Rast September 25, 2021

There surely is a world of difference between the prayer of action and that of silence or word.

Opening our Eyes to Meaning

Brother David Steindl-Rast September 24, 2021

Happiness and a meaningful life are inseparable.

At Home with Angels and Beasts

Brother David Steindl-Rast September 22, 2021

We humans belong to both realms, the realm of the senses and a realm that goes beyond them. This stretches us. To avoid the tension of this stretching process we are apt to settle for half of our rightful inheritance. ...

God’s Love Is Free

Ilia Delio, OSF September 21, 2021

Freedom is the gift of God’s humble love. It is the gift of a God who loves us faithfully despite our failures, always bending low to embrace us in love. God’s love is free because real love always desires the ...

Turn Your Heart Toward God

Ilia Delio, OSF September 20, 2021

Francis and his early followers remind us that it is not place or circumstances that make us free, it is the heart that makes us free when it is turned toward God.

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