Minute Meditations

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What Is Yours to Do?

Humility is the guardian and the ornament of all virtues. If the spiritual building does not rest upon it, it will fall to ruin, though it seems to be growing.
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The Beauty of Bonaventure

St. Bonaventure experienced God’s love as revealed in the humility and suffering of Christ, whose cross enables us to experience God’s companionship and the power to change our lives.
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Loved and Chosen by 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 ...
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The Kingdom of Heaven Is Close

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

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

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.
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Embraced by the Father

The love of the Father for the Son is the same divine love for all creation.
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