Minute Meditations

Thomas of Celano, an early friar and author of three hagiographies of Francis, wrote that the saint “burned with a love that came from his whole being for the sacrament of the Lord’s body.”

It is only through the passage of diversity that we awaken to our inherent union and spiritual connection to one another.

How often do we consider that the person we’re with brings their own unique gifts to a conversation or experience?

I wanted to spend some time with what Father Cyprian shared. “Dialogue is not a crossing of two monologues,” he said.

Francis knew that idolatry was the key sin in the Old Testament.

St. Teresa of Avila’s prayer life did culminate in the “spiritual rain” of mystical union with Christ.