Minute Meditations

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Carlo Acutis: You Belong to the Ages

I have always categorized you, Carlo, as “the millennial saint,” but that is limiting. You are timeless.
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The Word Dwells in Creation

The life of Francis shows us that right relationship in creation is not easy. He heard the words spoken by the crucified Christ—“go rebuild my house”—and took them literally. He began to rebuild the church of San Damiano stone by ...
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Creation vs Nature

To speak of creation as our home is to speak of creation as relationship. The word creation implies relationship, unlike the word nature, which holds no inherent religious meaning.
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God’s Home

Francis taught the brothers to accept the gifts of God’s goodness in creation and to respond with grateful hearts through bonds of love, care, concern, and companionship.
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woman holding up her dirty hands from working in the fields.

Hands for Work, Hearts for Prayer

In some ways our modern lives are easier, but has not this distancing from agriculture contributed to our alienation from creation?
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‘My Eyes Are Open’

Having your world shaken isn’t a bad thing. Scary, yes. But transformation is closer than we know.
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Remember the Sabbath

Christians have often been poor at practicing the Sabbath, imagining it to be a Jewish practice for which Jesus showed apparent disregard.
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