Minute Meditations

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Love Pulls Us to God

Love God and do as you will, says St. Augustine, for love is its own commandment.

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Seek Perfect Joy

The spirituality of St. Francis is not so much about the heroic deed as it is about the heroic love with which even the smallest deed is done.
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Repair, Rebuild, Renew

Once Francis knew God’s will, whether from some mystical voice or from listening to the scriptures, he would immediately try to live it out.
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Prayer Is Never Ours

Perhaps the most beautiful truth about prayer is that it is never really ours.
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‘Your Heart Is to Be an Altar of God’

In writing to a Poor Clare, St. Bonaventure said, “Your heart is to be an altar of God. It is here that the fire of intense love must burn always.”
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Our True Source of Peace

“One is the human Spirit,” but the human Spirit is more than human because the human heart is unfathomable.
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Go Forth and Share the Good News

God’s love and mercy is revealed in Jesus breathing forth the Spirit of love and forgiveness upon his disciples.
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