Minute Meditations

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Live and Let Go

Humility is the hallmark spiritual virtue of letting go.

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A Prayer for Saint Clare

Prayer cannot be judged on the basis of “highs” or “feel-good” experiences.
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Become Poor

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

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!’

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

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

Not everyone is called to be a professed Franciscan. But everyone is called to be Franciscan.
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