Minute Meditations

The practical conclusion of the first teaching of St. Francis is that if we listen and pray, God will show us what we are to do with our lives.

Find a way to be especially good to your body this week. It is a gift from God.

We need to be in right relationship with people, so that other people can love us at deeper levels, and so we can love them too.

Where do you instinctively make decisions—your head, heart, or gut? Which do you consider the most trustworthy?

Everything is thereby holy and worthy of care, and reverence, and a song of God’s praise.

St. Bonaventure said of his holy father Francis that he was a true teacher because he learned the truth of God’s revelation.