Minute Meditations

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You Are Remarkable

Casey Cole, OFM April 19, 2024

Have you ever stopped to marvel at how amazingly unique you are?

The love of Jesus Christ that leads to his willing embrace of the crucified earthly destiny that appeared before him is both a model for how we are called to love and a revelation of God’s self-offering of control out ...

Control, Surrender, Loss

Daniel P. Horan, OFM March 24, 2024

If love is the free surrender of one’s control, then suffering is the involuntary taking of that control away.

Sinners Make the Best Contemplatives

Laurence Freeman, OSB March 23, 2024

Jesus said he came for the sick, not the healthy. He dined with sinners, not church leaders. So who’s “special”?

Poverty of Spirit

Ragan Sutterfield March 22, 2024

I feel the grandeur of creation and my smallness in it. For a moment I have no worries, only the sense of God’s abiding grace in the world.

Lent Is a Return to Simplicity

Laurence Freeman, OSB March 21, 2024

The practices of Lent help us to be both realistic and happy. The two go together in a way that consumerism can never fathom.

Prayers to a Listening Heaven

Christopher Heffron March 20, 2024

When I am hiking in the woods on spring mornings, I like that I am dwarfed by trees. I appreciate that I am outnumbered by animals and insects who see me when I cannot see them.

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