Minute Meditations
Live and Let Go
Kyle Kramer
August 14, 2025
Humility is the hallmark spiritual virtue of letting go.
A Prayer for Saint Clare
Jack Wintz, OFM
August 11, 2025
Prayer cannot be judged on the basis of “highs” or “feel-good” experiences.
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Become Poor
Ilia Delio, OSF
August 10, 2025
How do we center ourselves in the love of God? Clare’s answer is simple and disarming: Become poor.
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Clare’s Spiritual Genius
Ilia Delio, OSF
August 9, 2025
To know God is to know the human person since the mystery of God is the human person.
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‘Most High Glorious God!’
Roch Niemier, OFM
August 3, 2025
If you look closely at Christ on the San Damiano Cross, as painted on this cross, you will see that it is neither a bloody body nor one twisted in anguish.
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Leo XIV: The Missionary Pope
Daniel Imwalle
August 1, 2025
Whether via Chicago or via Chiclayo, Pope Leo XIV’s mission of love now extends to the whole world, which so desperately needs healing.
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A Higher Calling
Patrick Carolan
July 31, 2025
Not everyone is called to be a professed Franciscan. But everyone is called to be Franciscan.
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