Minute Meditations

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‘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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Gaze, Consider, Contemplate, Imitate

An adaptation of Clare’s words, Gaze upon Christ, Consider Christ, Contemplate Christ, can be a Franciscan mantra for those wishing to draw closer to God in contemplative prayer.
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Simplicity Is Our Goal

When you agree to live simply, the ethics and economics of war reveal themselves in all their evil and stupidity.
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Gaze upon a Loving God

When you agree to live simply, you have little to protect and no desire for acquisition, even for acquisition of any “moral capital.”
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The Word Dwells in Creation

As the Word dwells in the human person, so, too, the same Word dwells in creation.
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‘Come Before Him with Joyful Song’

Francis loved to sing. It freed his spirit and turned the human voice, so often an organ of selfishness and sin, into an instrument of celebration.
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Forgiveness Leads to Peace

As others have written, the person who benefits most from forgiving is the one who forgives. 
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