Minute Meditations

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Maintain Your Peace

Don’t be in such a hurry that you lose your inner peace. It’s bad for your physical and mental health.
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Following the Ways of Jesus

Following the ways of Jesus: That was how Saint Francis and his brothers were to live their lives, and they would do it by being poor like Christ; by being men of the road like Jesus and his Apostles; by ...
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Wooden sculpture of Jesus Christ on the cross

We Are Called to Love

The love of Jesus Christ that leads to his willing embrace of the crucified earthly destiny that appeared before him is both a model for how we are called to love and a revelation of God’s self-offering of control out ...
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Alone but Not Lonely

Solitude is truthful and often delightful, even when painful. Loneliness is a hell made up of the illusion of separateness.
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Jesus Quenches Our Thirst

Jesus’ thirst was not so much for water, but for the encounter with a parched soul. Jesus needed to encounter the Samaritan woman in order to open her heart. The outcome of that encounter by the well was the woman’s ...
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Come Home

When we realize that the road we have been following may not be the one that is best for us, we must have the humility to admit that we have strayed, that we have been mistaken, that God knows better ...
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Transform Yourself This Lent

How does transformation happen? Ladder-climbing Western culture, and the human ego, made the Gospel into a message of spiritual advancement—ascent rather than descent. We hopefully advance in wisdom, age, and grace, but not at all in the way we thought. ...
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