Minute Meditations

Young person with regrets holding his hands over his head

The Weight of Our Sins

Christopher Heffron July 9, 2025

God knows our flaws and loves us in spite of them. We are not irredeemable.

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Eyes Affixed on God

Murray Bodo, OFM August 5, 2024

Our lives are a forgetting and a remembering. A rhythm that follows us relentlessly till death.

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Transformation into Christ

Murray Bodo, OFM August 4, 2024

Unselfish love and transformation into Christ are both the motivation for and the purpose of vows.

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Clare, the Undiminished Light

Sister Margaret Carney, OSF STD August 3, 2024

Clare's bereavement could hardly be equaled since for her, as for her sisters, Francis was “after God, her only consolation.”

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Clear and Precious and Beautiful

Sister Margaret Carney, OSF STD August 2, 2024

Clare was a guide for all who would follow Francis after his death.

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Powered by Grace

Sister Margaret Carney, OSF STD August 1, 2024

Clare encourages us to unlock the spiritual power we already possess.

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A older woman, grounded, compassionate and joyful

Reality and Compassion

Richard Rohr, OFM July 31, 2024

There’s a moral realism in healthy and grounded people. They’re not ideological, on the left or the right.

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