Minute Meditations

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.

When Francis stripped himself naked at Santa Maria Maggiore, he was reaching for the heart of God.

In recognizing his vocation to live the Gospel, Francis knew that he could no longer identify himself with the wealthy and powerful of his day.

The beauty of being human is to turn to our spiritual ancestors, to cherish what they left behind, what remains.

The meek are blessed precisely because they recognize their dependence on the generosity of God and creation.