Minute Meditations

St. Anthony, Our Teacher

Jack Wintz, OFM June 9, 2025

In canonizing Anthony in 1232, Pope Gregory IX spoke of him as the “Ark of the Testament” and the “Repository of Holy Scripture.”

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God Always Has Time for You

Fr. Gary Caster September 24, 2023

Going away to a quiet place to pray is not about making time for God; it is about being grateful that God always has time for you.

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Pray Always!

Fr. Gary Caster September 23, 2023

Every human activity becomes a means of praising God. As St. Paul encourages us, we can pray without ceasing by the way we live our lives.

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Accept God’s Invitation

Fr. Gary Caster September 21, 2023

The knowledge of who we have become in Christ should infuse the prayer of our hearts, our devotional practices, and our prayers with the Christian community.

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Prayer Is More than Speech

Fr. Gary Caster September 20, 2023

St. Thérèse understood that prayer is a unique kind of activity that expresses the height and depth and breadth of being.

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Prayer Is a Mystery

Fr. Gary Caster September 19, 2023

Prayer always seems to be more than the words we use to describe it or the ways in which we understand it.

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God’s Children

Fr. Gary Caster September 16, 2023

Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, God is with us in his Son.

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