Minute Meditations

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Revelations of Grace

As Catholics, we find our houses and our world haunted by a sense that the objects, events, and persons of daily life are revelations of grace.
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Creation vs Nature

To speak of creation as our home is to speak of creation as relationship. The word creation implies relationship, unlike the word nature, which holds no inherent religious meaning.
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God’s Home

Francis taught the brothers to accept the gifts of God’s goodness in creation and to respond with grateful hearts through bonds of love, care, concern, and companionship.
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woman holding up her dirty hands from working in the fields.

Hands for Work, Hearts for Prayer

In some ways our modern lives are easier, but has not this distancing from agriculture contributed to our alienation from creation?
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‘My Eyes Are Open’

Having your world shaken isn’t a bad thing. Scary, yes. But transformation is closer than we know.
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Remember the Sabbath

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

Change messes with us. I wish it weren’t so. Change messes with the tidy (manageable and predictable) script we tote for mental security.
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