Minute Meditations

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What Is Yours to Do?

Humility is the guardian and the ornament of all virtues. If the spiritual building does not rest upon it, it will fall to ruin, though it seems to be growing.
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Our Communion of Saints

The saints and blesseds are special signs of God’s activity.
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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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Friendship and Self-Giving Love

For Clare of Assisi, friendship with Christ entailed a friendship of self-giving love.
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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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Sinners, Too, Have Souls

The centrality of the Crucified in the life of Francis suggests that Francis became a friend of Christ because he sought to follow Jesus who lived out of depth of love in obedience to the Father.
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‘Lift Up the Fallen’

In Fratelli Tutti Pope Francis promotes a universal aspiration toward fraternity and social friendship.
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