Minute Meditations

Angel kneeling before Mary at the annunciation

The Humble Handmaiden

Mary offers to share with us her graces, her love, and her mystery, symbolized in the roses adorning her halo.
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What Waits in the Dark?

Ancient storytellers observed that the sun makes a journey every night. To their eyes, the sun slipped out of sight in the western sky and descended into the dark earth or ocean, only to reappear far to the east at ...
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Follow Christ in His Incarnation

This is the commitment of being a Christian: following Christ in his incarnation. And if Christ is God in his majesty who becomes a humble man even to dying like a slave on the cross and who lives with the ...
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Making Christ Flesh in History

Mary becomes Salvadoran and makes Christ flesh in the history of El Salvador. And Mary takes on your last name and my last name to bring forth the history of your family, of my family, in the eternal life of ...
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Advent with Saint Clare

“She was the first flower in Francis’ garden, and she shone like a radiant star.” —Saint Bonaventure On Sunday we begin the Advent season, leading us to the birth of Christ. As we walk this journey, we will be joined ...
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Francis: A Man Whose Whole Being Radiated Joy

Francis was becoming a happy man, not giddy, but a man whose whole being radiated joy. He had endured hatred and abuse in patience for two years already, and yet his spirit seemed more steadfast with the passing weeks and ...
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God's Kingdom Is Already Being Realized

In one sense, what the Voice said to Francis is what he already knew, that beneath what appears on the surface is the priceless gold of what everything really is: God’s precious creation. And even greater than the created thing ...
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