Minute Meditations

St. Francis of Assisi once said, “Create within yourself a place where God might dwell.”

“Rich by reason of its poverty.” That phrase was as difficult to understand in Francis’s day as it is in ours. Celano was not pulling this expression out of thin air.

Throughout this canticle, we have seen how Francis saw God’s goodness, radiance and beauty in all creatures. He saw them indeed as benevolent friends, as brothers and sisters—as family. And now even the reality of death itself becomes “Sister Death” ...

Today, Christian Native Americans seek ways of being equal participants in the life and mission of the Church—as indigenous people.

When the realities of life hit, and you have lost everything, what is left is the stunning beauty of our relationships with one another, with this world, and with God. 

Our Franciscan tradition speaks to the idea of unity through community.