Minute Meditations

Without the kind of internal conversion of heart that Francis came to in his own life, we can easily find our certainties elsewhere.

The two men recognized in each other a desire for peace and a devotion to their mutual sacred texts, the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Q’uran.

Peace is achieved more effectively by trying to bring out the best, not pointing out the worst, in others.

Saint Francis simply loved Christ and lived the Gospel, and he and his brothers became thereby catalysts for social change.

Was there a defining moment when Francis realized that it was God he was trying to love?

St. Francis knew that to see ourselves as we truly are is to look at ourselves with the eyes of God.