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.

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Light in the Darkness

Diane M. Houdek December 27, 2023

Light can be a metaphor for holiness, for joy, for peace.

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Better than Life Itself

Richard Rohr, OFM December 26, 2023

We have to ask for the grace to prefer something to our small life because we have been offered God’s Life in Jesus.

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Surrender to Love

Richard Rohr, OFM December 25, 2023

Jesus is the gift totally given, free for the taking, once and for all, to everybody and all of creation.

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All Is in Readiness

Richard Rohr, OFM December 24, 2023

December 24 holds the full energy of Advent.

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Power, Prestige, Possessions

Richard Rohr, OFM December 23, 2023

Our attachments to power, prestige and possessions are obstacles to God’s coming.

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Desire for the Word of God

Richard Rohr, OFM December 22, 2023

Obedience is to be true to our deepest voices, which is the only way God can speak to us.

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