Minute Meditations

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The Slow Journey into God

Murray Bodo, OFM February 23, 2025

Francis's journey involved learning to love anew the things of creation, his love constantly being purified by the overarching love of God.

Only God Can Change Hearts

Roch Niemier, OFM January 11, 2025

Francis himself realized that prayer or fasting cannot change one’s heart. Only God can.

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‘Your Heart Is to Be an Altar of God’

Jack Wintz, OFM January 10, 2025

In writing to a Poor Clare, St. Bonaventure said, “Your heart is to be an altar of God. It is here that the fire of intense love must burn always.”

Our True Source of Peace

Brother David Steindl-Rast January 9, 2025

“One is the human Spirit,” but the human Spirit is more than human because the human heart is unfathomable.

Go Forth and Share the Good News

Jack Wintz, OFM January 8, 2025

God’s love and mercy is revealed in Jesus breathing forth the Spirit of love and forgiveness upon his disciples.

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There’s a wonderful upside to simple living: the possibility of becoming true craftsmen and craftswomen of the time we’re given. We all know that we only have so much of it. We can’t get it back or create more. We ...

Be Humble. Let Go.

Kyle Kramer January 6, 2025

Humility is the hallmark spiritual virtue of letting go.

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