Minute Meditations

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.

If we choose to love, we immediately take on the responsibility of being for others, in service and in times of opposition, in trials and persecution, also in peace and joy.