Minute Meditations

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Love Is the Foundation

Great religion seeks utter awareness and full consciousness, so that we can, in fact, receive all. Everything belongs and everything can be received.
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My Deepest Way of Praying

As I look back over the decades since my stay in Assisi, I try to give my moments to the people and the animals in my life now.
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Water Is My Refuge

Healing is ultimately a journey of interacting with water as a comforter, teacher, counselor, friend, or—as St. Francis named her—sister.
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Vision of the Crucified Christ

The two questions from the prayer of Francis overheard by Brother Leo are, I believe, one of the simplest ways to approach God. We open ourselves and allow God to answer that first question, Who are you, my God? Reflecting on the ...
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Holy Poverty

His friends ask him, “Are you thinking of marrying someone?” But Francis answers them figuratively.
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God’s Work Within

The moment we surrender to the truth that God is not present to us in the way we would like God to be—namely, at our beck and call—we begin to rise; we start to resemble the Risen Christ. And if ...
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Living Gardens of the Lord

St. Thérèse of Lisieux wrote that there is more power in one little act done with all the love one possesses than in the most impressive spiritual displays or works of service if they are not rooted in pure love ...
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