Minute Meditations

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Bring Your Sorrows to God

Maureen O'Brien July 16, 2025

The psalms repeatedly encourage us to tell the truth of how hard life can be. “How long Lord? Will you utterly forget me? How long must I carry sorrow in my soul, grief in my heart day after day?” (Ps ...

Beautifully Ordinary

Franciscan Media January 31, 2017

Anyone can find what is beautiful and true by living apart from ordinary life. Everyone is enlightened on the mountaintop. The harder choice is to live with the knowing right in the center of your life. In your daily chores. ...

Person with a headache holding their head

In Times of Trouble

Franciscan Media January 28, 2017

Maybe the highest form of spirituality is simply to bear patiently with our brokenness. In the midst of a world of emotional and psychological violence, perhaps we can at least refrain from violence of any kind toward ourselves. - from ...

Quiet Prayer

Franciscan Media January 21, 2017

Father, there are ways in which I have grown quiet. Some hopes and dreams in my heart are too long-awaited, too sacred to be the stuff of idle chatter. Lord, I trust your faithfulness and your goodness and your love. ...

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