Minute Meditations

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Prayer Is Relationship

Linda McCullough Moore July 21, 2025

Prayer is being consciously in God’s presence, focusing our eyes on God, on who God is.

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Promise of the Promised Land

Martin J.P. Gianotti April 3, 2025

It wasn’t until God’s people utilized the lesson from the desert that they made Jericho’s walls fall to the ground.

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Build the Kingdom of God

Richard Gribble, CSC April 2, 2025

Once we acknowledge the reality of our society, we must do what we can to live the ideal we seek to the best of our abilities.

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Freedom in God

Richard Gribble, CSC April 1, 2025

How blind are we to many of the situations around us? Are we too caught up in our own little worlds?

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Pause. Then Pray.

Christopher Heffron March 31, 2025

St. Francis of Assisi understood the spiritual and psychological toll that life could bring.

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‘Who Are You, God? Who Am I?’

Casey Cole, OFM March 30, 2025

For St. Francis, this search for himself began and ended by asking the only one whose opinion mattered: Jesus.

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Discipleship Is Not a Part-Time Job

Casey Cole, OFM March 29, 2025

Being his disciple means transforming every aspect of our lives so that nothing, not even the smallest part of who we are, is out of touch with the mission of Christ.

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