Minute Meditations

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Love Pours Forth

When I once preached on the wedding feast at Cana, I suggested that the six stone jars had a moral interpretation: six ways to purify the soul.

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two metal gear grinding together.

The Place You Call Holy

Forget your cell, your cave, your place of prayer and be where you are—and in no other place.
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statue of praying Mary

Mary’s Feminine Force

John realizes she is not just a tool, a means for God to become human. She is herself a feminine force in the cosmos of his visions.
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What It Means to Love

Love means helping those who need us, even when we ourselves might be in need.
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old painting of Mary and baby Jesus

Mary’s Spiritual Motherhood

Christ came among us as God and man by means of a human birth through Mary, the Spouse of the Holy Spirit.
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Take Nothing for the Journey

No matter what I come to expect, no matter how large and creative I think my imagination is, I always fall short of what God wants to accomplish.
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Bedrock of Franciscan Peacemaking

Mutual giving and receiving is the bedrock of Franciscan peacemaking.
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