Minute Meditations

Mutual giving and receiving is the bedrock of Franciscan peacemaking.

We have to remember that how we do anything is how we do everything. How we do this moment is how we are going to do the next moment.

Jesus is calling us, and we must be willing to let go of what keeps us from him.

It is easy to imagine Mary feeling stress during her early years with Jesus in this passing world.

Of all the titles and epithets of Mary, the ones that make her most human and real to us are those relating to her motherhood.

She knew from the moment of the rush of Gabriel’s wings and his lilting “Hail, full of Grace,” that she was only the handmaid.