Minute Meditations
What Is Yours to Do?
Pat McCloskey, OFM
July 26, 2025
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.
St. Francis Laid the Path
Richard Rohr, OFM
July 25, 2025
Imagine how different Western history and religion could have been if we had walked so tenderly and lovingly upon the earth, as Francis and Jesus did.
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Prophets and Mystics
Alicia von Stamwitz
July 24, 2025
We’re all called to be prophets and mystics.
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Who Are You, O Lord, and Who Am I?
Jim Van Vurst, OFM
July 23, 2025
St. Francis of Assisi often prayed this little prayer which helped him put everything in his life into perspective: “Who are you, O Lord, and who am I?”
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God Desires Communion with Us
Linda McCullough Moore
July 22, 2025
Is prayer multiple times a day for everyone? I don’t know. Nor do I know whether it is, in fact, even possible for everyone to carve out that many times a day. Some individuals’ lives are too complicated and demanding, ...
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Prayer Is Relationship
Linda McCullough Moore
July 21, 2025
Prayer is being consciously in God’s presence, focusing our eyes on God, on who God is.
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Beggar, Mystic, Man of God
Murray Bodo, OFM
July 20, 2025
Francis had noticed that when he went begging, few people looked into his eyes. They seemed always to avoid eye contact, either from embarrassment or fear or contempt.
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