Minute Meditations

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Bring Everything to Christ

People walked days to hear me preach and in such numbers that I often spoke outdoors.

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Carlo Acutis: You Belong to the Ages

I have always categorized you, Carlo Acutis, as “the millennial saint,” but that is limiting. You are timeless.
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God’s Self-Offering

The love of Jesus Christ that leads to his willing embrace of the crucified earthly destiny that appeared before him is both a model for how we are called to love and a revelation of God’s self-offering of control out ...
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Control, Surrender, Loss

If love is the free surrender of one’s control, then suffering is the involuntary taking of that control away.
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A shepherd surrounded by his flock of sheep in a field during sunrise.

Pope Francis: The Good Shepherd

Considering Pope Francis' debilitating health issues, my mind always goes back to when his papacy was announced to the world.
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In Communion with the Father

Have you ever been surrounded by a whirlwind of activity, perhaps in the midst of family and friends, and felt a sudden whoosh of deep contentment?
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Surrender to God

Both Christ and St. Francis show us that they suffered what we suffered, but they suffered in love, and that makes all the difference.
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