Minute Meditations

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Our Family of Creation

Will we see our pets and other creatures in the next life? Only God can answer a question like this.
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God Loves Our Imperfections

God looks at us and sees the beauty of who we are, and that beauty is not a result of our being perfect.
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Love and Triumph

As Bonaventure writes, God is “totally submerged in the waters from the sole of the foot to the top of the head…. [God] appeared to you as your beloved cut through with wound upon wound in order to heal you.”
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Heaven and Earth

The first Franciscans believed that God was in the world, actively shaping human experience, and inspiring birds’ songs and wolves’ howls.
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An Alternative Vision of God

If Christian faith is to be meaningful to twenty-first-century individuals and play a positive role in healing the earth and its peoples, Christians must choose the way of loving relatedness.
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The Divine Dance of Lent

Prayer as a spiritual practice never goes out of style. Prayer is a powerful way of participating in divine community.
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The Almighty in All Things

To those who left all things, Jesus had promised eternal life and a hundredfold besides—now!
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