Minute Meditations

Awe and Wonder of Creation

Pope Francis April 28, 2024

St. Francis’ response to the world around him was so much more than intellectual appreciation or economic calculus, for to him each and every creature was a sister united to him by bonds of affection.

person walking on a primitive bridge over a rushing river

Walk without Fear

Murray Bodo, OFM, and Susan Saint Sing April 15, 2024

Fear is crippling. It has prevented me from doing so many things.

Living Gospels

Murray Bodo, OFM, and Susan Saint Sing April 14, 2024

It is my presumption that Francis and his brothers became living gospels the same way we do, by walking in the footsteps of Christ, which is a gradual, ongoing pilgrimage.

outside walls painted with trees surrounding doors

The Spirit Flows

Richard Rohr, OFM April 13, 2024

Enlightenment is not so much knowing as unknowing. It is not so much learning as unlearning.

Lovely Lady Poverty

Murray Bodo, OFM, and Susan Saint Sing April 12, 2024

This mystery of gospel poverty is the great desire of Francis’s heart and soul because it is the mystery of Christ, who is being born within Francis as Francis dies to himself to become like Christ.

weak hands of an old person, folded in lap

St. Francis: Weak in Body, Strong in Spirit

Murray Bodo, OFM, and Susan Saint Sing April 11, 2024

The beauty of Francis’s world after his experience of the San Damiano cross is that it largely shielded him.

Wait in Silence

Murray Bodo, OFM, and Susan Saint Sing April 10, 2024

I have found that if someone is going to work hard at being immersed in God, the effort should not be just in the praying itself but in becoming yourself a place of prayer.

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