Minute Meditations

After Francis’ death, Bonaventure will talk about the “transformative power of love.” Love is what moved the heart and mind of the saint from Assisi, and it is love that is the greatest force for change and good in our ...

Jesus said he came for the sick, not the healthy. He dined with sinners, not church leaders. So who’s “special”?

I feel the grandeur of creation and my smallness in it. For a moment I have no worries, only the sense of God’s abiding grace in the world.

The practices of Lent help us to be both realistic and happy. The two go together in a way that consumerism can never fathom.

Joseph and Mary’s life does not fit into ordinary human categories.

Be at peace in all things, because the enemy, who always fishes in troubled waters, takes advantage of our discouragement to achieve his intentions more readily.