Minute Meditations
Love Frees Us
				
			
																				
			Diane M. Houdek		
				
																						
			April 13, 2019		
		
		
				Selfishness leads nowhere and love frees. Those who are able to live their lives as a gift to give others will never be alone and will never experience the drama of the isolated conscience. Jesus says something remarkable to us: “Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” Love always takes this path: to give one’s life.
The Good News
					
			
																				
			Daniel P. Horan, Phd		
				
																						
			April 12, 2019		
				
		
		
			Jesus’ death and resurrection express a reality that is complicated, emotionally moving, and yet joyful. Death does not have the last word. And that is indeed the good news. God is the one who will be there for us! God is ...		
					
					
														
									
								
													
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						A Prayer of Love
					
			
																				
			Daniel P. Horan, Phd		
				
																						
			April 10, 2019		
				
		
		
			God of community and love, there are many times when we are too quick to abandon Christ on the cross. Like those disciples who feared for their lives, things great and small cause us to fear for ours. Help us ...		
					
					
														
									
								
													
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						God's Little Gifts
					
			
																				
			Brother David Steindl-Rast		
				
																						
			April 8, 2019		
				
		
		
			There is no closer bond than the one which gratefulness celebrates: the bond between giver and thanksgiver. Everything is a gift. Grateful living is a celebration of the universal give-and-take of life, a limitless “yes” to belonging. Can our world ...		
					
					
														
									
								
													
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						Saint Francis and His Band of Brothers
					
			
																				
			Murray Bodo, OFM		
				
																						
			April 7, 2019		
				
		
		
			Francis was aware that they were a strange, perhaps frightening sight—twelve unkempt beggars walking purposefully along like a band of robbers. But he hoped their singing and their joy, the blessings they freely gave disarmed all fear and hostility.		
					
					
														
									
								
													
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						Following Christ
					
			
																				
			Daniel P. Horan, Phd		
				
																						
			April 6, 2019		
				
		
		
			Like the two criminals on either side of Jesus, our choice is between what we want and what is needed, between the will of our own desires and the will of God. To follow Christ means a willingness to surrender ...		
					
					
														
									
								
													
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						Live Simply, Simply Live
					
			
																				
			Richard Rohr, OFM		
				
																						
			April 4, 2019		
				
		
		
			Living in the second half of life, I no longer have to prove that I or my group is the best, that my ethnicity is superior, that my religion is the only one that God loves, or that my role ...		
					
					
														
									
								
													
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