Minute Meditations

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Savor This Day of Rest

Ragan Sutterfield May 5, 2024

Christians have often been poor at practicing the Sabbath, imagining it to be a Jewish practice for which Jesus showed apparent disregard.

Pause. Then Pray.

Christopher Heffron April 29, 2024

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

St. Francis’ response to the world around him was so much more than intellectual appreciation or economic calculus, for to him each and every creature was a sister united to him by bonds of affection.

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Called to the Cross

Herman Sutter April 27, 2024

If we claim to revere the cross, if we claim to love the one who died for our sins, then we must not turn away.

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A Vision of Shalom

Bruce Epperly April 26, 2024

Those who follow the spirit of the Lord’s Prayer become mystical activists seeking to incarnate God’s realm “on earth as it is in heaven.”

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Learning from the Lord’s Prayer

Bruce Epperly April 25, 2024

Francis placed the Lord’s Prayer, the Our Father, at the center of community life.

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Money Is Meaningless

Richard Rohr, OFM April 24, 2024

It is sad that we have a willingness to give our whole lives to producing items of no social benefit.

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