Minute Meditations
Advent with the Saints: Vincent de Paul and Frederic Ozanam
Greg Friedman, OFM
December 3, 2025
Christmastime is marked by extra efforts at generosity toward the poor.
Advent with the Saints: Adolph Kolping
Greg Friedman, OFM
December 2, 2025
The “Kolping Society,” as it is popularly known, seeks to emphasize the dignity of human work and support family life.
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Advent with the Saints: Frances Xavier Cabrini
Greg Friedman, OFM
December 1, 2025
Much of the Catholic Church in the United States has grown through the faith of thousands of immigrants who came here over the centuries.
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Advent with the Saints: Isaiah
Greg Friedman, OFM
November 30, 2025
Passages from Isaiah are among the most beautiful in the Bible, touching upon poetic imagery of deserts blooming, mountains lowering, and valleys filling up.
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Raise Our Torches
Rebecca Freeman
November 25, 2025
Lady Liberty, inspire us. Mother Mary, deliver us.
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Be in the Margins
Tyler Grudi, OFM
November 24, 2025
This is my prayer for our nation, that each of us goes a little further to the margins, peripheries, and abandoned places in our communities to touch the poor there.
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Praying with Our Bodies
Shannon K. Evans
November 23, 2025
Although our culture separates body and spirit, the very incarnation of Jesus speaks to a higher reality.
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