Minute Meditations

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Who Are You, O Lord, and Who Am I?

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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Write Down the Word

There are times when the interior journey is impeded by the refusal or inability to make an external journey.
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Holy Rule for the Poor Ladies

As Clare had labored over the years in doing the fine handwork that helped support the monastery, she now set herself the task of a written text.
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Your Life Is a Song

Give thanks to the Lord always, and your life will be a song.
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Eyes Affixed on God

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

Unselfish love and transformation into Christ are both the motivation for and the purpose of vows.
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Clare, the Undiminished Light

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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