Minute Meditations

sad woman behind a window with water drops.

‘God Has Collected Your Tears’

I don’t think you can get to a place of being open to God’s grace unless you feel that your lament has been heard.
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girl courageously leaping/stepping over a gap in the wall

Live the Gospel Life

What would it look like to live in the now? The question itself might sound a little tired or clichéd, but the truth is that to live in the now is to live the freedom of the children of God.
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Small crucifix with Jesus hanging from a car mirror

Jesus with Us

As a people of faith, we are wonderfully blessed to know that Jesus experienced death.
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Group of volunteers cleaning up a beach

Our Communion of Saints

The saints and blesseds are special signs of God’s activity.
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person giving food to a homeless person

Singular Holiness

Francis’s greatness, I think, comes from his ability to transfer, and transform, his internal conversations to the physical reality of the external world.
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Two women friends happy and embracing

Friendship and Self-Giving Love

For Clare of Assisi, friendship with Christ entailed a friendship of self-giving love.
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man walking down a road.

Prayer on the Road

One of the earliest accounts of Francis, the “Legend of Perugia,” quotes Francis as telling the first friars, “You only know as much as you do.”
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