Minute Meditations

‘Most High Glorious God!’

Roch Niemier, OFM August 3, 2025

If you look closely at Christ on the San Damiano Cross, as painted on this cross, you will see that it is neither a bloody body nor one twisted in anguish.

God Has Been So Good to Us

Diane M. Houdek January 2, 2024

Often at the margins we’ll be surprised by a glimpse of God.

“Mary treasured all these things and pondered them in her heart!” (Luke 2:19). In these words, Luke describes the attitude with which Mary took in all that they had experienced in those days. Far from trying to understand or master ...

God Revealed in Time

Pope Francis December 31, 2023

The meaning of time is the atmosphere of God’s epiphany, of God’s mystery and his concrete love.

Family Stories

Diane M. Houdek December 30, 2023

If we have celebrated the feast of the incarnation well, our lives will be changed.

God’s Wondrous Creation

Diane M. Houdek December 29, 2023

Nature is a gift to be celebrated, not simply to be controlled and altered.

Flight into Egypt

Diane M. Houdek December 28, 2023

In caring for today’s refugees we are caring for the least of God’s people

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