Minute Meditations

Padre Pio’s letter to Raffaelina Cerase, 1914: Baptism is said to be a copy of the death of Jesus. St. Paul says we are baptized “into his death” [Romans 6:3], in imitation of the death of our Redeemer. What the ...

Here are words of wisdom from St. Katharine Drexel.

Take comfort because your suffering is in God’s will. If human nature is resentful of suffering and resists it.

Francis loved the earth, but his motion was always up and away from it toward some intangible tug at his heart from above.

The saints and blesseds are special signs of God’s activity.

Poet Dorothy Walters offers the advice that I needed: “First let your heart be broken open.” In order to go deeper, the pain had to be met and experienced.