Minute Meditations

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Prayer Is Relationship

Linda McCullough Moore July 21, 2025

Prayer is being consciously in God’s presence, focusing our eyes on God, on who God is.

It’s when we do God’s work that our heart finds its true home. It’s when we help feed the hunger of others, share our resources with those in need, and replace our selfishness for the selflessness modeled by Jesus that ...

In a Continuum

Susan Saint Sing November 18, 2024

I don’t think there is much difference between life and death. The difference is as a leaf suspended in a flowing stream.

Comfort from the Cross

Susan Saint Sing November 17, 2024

We as moderns view the whole of Francis’ life—beginning, middle and end.

Painting of Jesus on the Cross. San Damiano cross

Embrace the Mystical Christ

Susan Saint Sing November 16, 2024

This cross at San Damiano, like all crosses, is the “canvas” on which the answers are painted.

Love and Love Again

Daniel P. Horan, Phd November 15, 2024

There is no such thing as a human person without dignity or value in the eyes of God.

The Gift of Solitude

Daniel P. Horan, Phd November 14, 2024

It was not long in the silence of the solitude that I understood I was not alone.

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