Minute Meditations

We're Not Perfect

Franciscan Media April 3, 2017

Lent calls us back to seeing that God loves us as we are and wants to heal us. We do the right things for the wrong reasons and sometimes do the wrong things with the best of intentions. Even something objectively wrong can become, through God’s grace, a sign of something holy and healing, a marker along our path that leads us home to God.

– from The Hope of Lent

Guard Against Pride

Franciscan Media April 2, 2017

We must be firmly convinced that we have nothing of our own, except our vices and sins. We must all be on our guard against pride and empty boasting and beware of worldly or natural wisdom. A worldly spirit loves ...

Far From Finished

Franciscan Media April 1, 2017

God is far from finished with any of us. Our conversion still needs to be deeper and wider, but that can only happen if we admit that God still has much to teach us. - from Peace and Good

Consolation in Suffering

Franciscan Media March 31, 2017

Most High, Glorious God, in our times of suffering, may we follow the example of Jesus; but may we also serve as a source of comfort and consolation to others in their suffering. May we never let the fear of ...

Pray Fervently

Franciscan Media March 30, 2017

Pray to Our Lady—pray the Rosary very fervently, cling to Our Lady, She will surely lead you to Jesus to know His will for you. – Mother Teresa - from Our Lady of Fatima

Joy of the Spirit

Franciscan Media March 29, 2017

Dear brothers and sisters, let us renew the promises of our Baptism: let us renounce Satan and all his works and seductions—for he is a seducer—in order to follow the path of God and arrive at Easter in the joy ...

Holy Comfort

Franciscan Media March 28, 2017

Let us pray to the Immaculate Heart of Mary for all the graces that we need to be a brilliant light and a holy comfort to others each and every day in this darkened and sometimes frightening world. Don’t forget ...