Minute Meditations

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Leo XIV: The Missionary Pope

Daniel Imwalle August 1, 2025

Whether via Chicago or via Chiclayo, Pope Leo XIV’s mission of love now extends to the whole world, which so desperately needs healing.

Suffering in Service to God

Franciscan Media March 2, 2024

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

Flying Free

Murray Bodo, OFM February 29, 2024

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

Saints Be Praised!

Franciscan Media February 28, 2024

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

Darkness and Light

Paula D'Arcy February 27, 2024

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.

Choose to Love

Roch Niemier, OFM February 26, 2024

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.

Undressing of the Heart

Roch Niemier, OFM February 25, 2024

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

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