Minute Meditations

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We Are Interconnected

When the realities of life hit, and you have lost everything, what is left is the stunning beauty of our relationships with one another, with this world, and with God. 
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A Universal Call to Holiness

In the plan of God, Francis became an instrument to revitalize Christianity in the Middle Ages, inspiring men and women, clerics and laity, single and married, wealthy and poor.
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A Compelling Tradition

The Franciscan intellectual tradition and the compelling story of Francis of Assisi seem to have a never-ending fascination for scholars, novelists, dramatists, screenwriters, and storytellers of every age, language, and culture.
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Identity, Justice, and Community

We will not appreciate Jesus’ loyalty to the Law and the Prophets if we do not accept his deeper understanding of freedom.
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Right Relationship Is Key

If a social order allows and encourages, and even mandates, good connectedness between people and creation, people and events, people and people, people and God, then we have a truly sacred culture: the Reign of God.
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Fingerprints of God

The Franciscan tradition has always seen all creation as the footprints and fingerprints of God and therefore sacramental.
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‘Entertaining Angels Unaware’

We are encouraged to welcome strangers, for by doing so, many people have entertained angels unaware (see Hebrews 13:2)
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