Minute Meditations
Doubt Can Benefit Us
Pat McCloskey, OFM
September 4, 2025
The word ponder means “to weigh.” Do people need to weigh something about which they are absolutely certain?
The Beauty of Humanness
Roch Niemier, OFM
August 31, 2025
The God we see in this image is a God of such overflowing love that it spills over into all of creation and into our hearts.
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Grief Often Leads to Grace
Ronald Rolheiser, OMI
August 29, 2025
As Dietrich Bonhoeffer put it: “Nothing can make up for the absence of someone we love."
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Prayers Unspoken
Stephen Copeland
August 27, 2025
Sometimes icons, symbols, nature, and art can take us where words cannot.
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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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‘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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