Minute Meditations

“Virtue—even attempted virtue—brings light; indulgence brings fog.” 

“And to this poverty, my beloved brothers, you must cling with all your heart, and wish never to have anything else under heaven.” 

My mind goes to this quote from Pope Francis: “Let us learn to keep silence before him, as we meditate upon the Gospel. If we are to know the Lord, we must go to him. Listen to him in silence before the Tabernacle and approach him ...

As we Catholics believe in the redemption of all things, we can imagine other animals and creatures present in God’s kingdom as well. 

The joy and fulfillment came in the creating, in the daring to create, day after day after day.

One of my favorite authors is the great Hoosier science fiction writer, Kurt Vonnegut. A theme he often plays with in many of his novels is the notion that human beings are becoming more machine-like in their dependence on technology ...