Minute Meditations

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

As the Word dwells in the human person, so, too, the same Word dwells in creation.

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.

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

St. Teresa’s prayer life did culminate in the “spiritual rain” of mystical union with Christ.

While we are quite familiar with being disappointed by the worst we see in the world, we cannot deny the extraordinary heroism of which humanity is also capable.