Minute Meditations

Young person with regrets holding his hands over his head

The Weight of Our Sins

Christopher Heffron July 9, 2025

God knows our flaws and loves us in spite of them. We are not irredeemable.

Advent with the Saints: Isaiah

Greg Friedman, OFM December 1, 2024

Passages from Isaiah are among the most beautiful in the Bible, touching upon poetic imagery of deserts blooming, mountains lowering, and valleys filling up.

person making a fist with hand, holding on to a cross necklace

Be Bold in Your Love for God

Murray Bodo, OFM November 28, 2024

How great must have been Saint Francis’ reverence for God’s name and God’s love!

woman holding a Bible in her hands, close to her body.

Reverence for the Word

Murray Bodo, OFM November 27, 2024

Again and again, Saint Francis admonishes us to hold reverently the words of God which hold God himself in their mystery.

woman holding her hands in front of her womb, forming a heart

Become the Womb of God

Murray Bodo, OFM November 26, 2024

Mary as the womb of God. How greatly honored is she who was chosen by the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit to be the dwelling place of God become human in Jesus Christ.

The Living Presence of Love

Roch Niemier, OFM November 25, 2024

Francis’ biographers point out that when people met with him, or heard him preach, it was not simply a question of listening to words of peace and joy.

Rebuild the House of God

Roch Niemier, OFM November 24, 2024

The reflection of ourselves in the cross is difficult to describe, and I’m sure equally difficult to understand or accept.

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