Minute Meditations

Crossing borders and overcoming barriers, if done with love, also brings a new vision of reality that enables us to have reverence for everything that is.

In all creatures God is revealed to us: the beauty, the grandeur, the infinite variety, the individuality, and the mystery. That is what St. Francis saw and what he teaches us.

Franciscan prayer begins with encountering the God of overflowing love in the person of Jesus Christ and ends with embodying that love in one’s own life.

God has entered into the darkness of every human heart and has loved us in the midst of pain and rejection.

The journey of prayer for Franciscans is the discovery of God at the center of our lives.

Prayer, therefore, requires an honest encounter with God, a turning of the mind and heart to God.