Minute Meditations

Among all the voices that surround and beckon us, we need to discern the unique cadence of God’s voice.

To describe God as “humble” may seem outrageous or even scandalous. Who could stake one’s life on a humble God?

One of the truths that is becoming more evident to me the more I study and think about the mystics is that they are not ordinary but chosen souls whom God came to when they were not expecting such a ...

All of us are invited to be rich soil for God’s word, and all of us have become rich soil in baptism.

The simplest way to describe God’s poverty and humility is in terms of love. Love gives itself away—this is God’s poverty.

Maybe because Francis was not an intellectual he could perceive the mystery of God in its pristine beauty—the extraordinary divine in the ordinary human.