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Model for Humility    Minute Meditations
The model for humble living is Jesus Christ, who refused to cling to divine status; possessed a deep reverence for and patience with others; reflected an interior silence and self-possession; and was willing to forgive.


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God's Master Plan

This Lent, my hope is that you will catch a new vision of the eternal Father who never fails to fulfill his word. No matter what obstacles arise, he never loses sight of his goal: to form and fashion a human family to share in the infinite love of the Trinity.

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Divine Discipline    Minute Meditations
Lord, whatever I’ve decided to give up for Lent, let me use that small sacrifice to remind me of the continual self-denial you call me to. And most of all, let me remember the reason for your call to be able to participate in your divine life!


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Draw Closer to God    Minute Meditations
What we do for Lent is far less important than why we do it. The time-honored traditions of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving are less to benefit us than to draw us closer to God and improve the lives of those around us.

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Living the Gospel    Minute Meditations
Not all of us are called to give dramatic, public witness to God’s word. We are all called, however, to live the Gospel in our lives.


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New Life    Minute Meditations
Those who experience the loving mercy of God in the sacrament of reconciliation should find themselves standing alongside the newly baptized at Easter filled with great joy at the new life God has given us all.


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Hunger for God    Minute Meditations
Fasting is more than a means of developing self-control. It is often an aid to prayer, as the pangs of hunger remind us of our hunger for God.


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Jesus Can Relate    Minute Meditations
God became a human being in the Person of Jesus—fully divine and yet fully human. Like a friend who knows us inside and out, Jesus knows what it is to be like one of us.

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Giving Your All    Minute Meditations
Some seem to love Jesus for the wrong reasons—merely to save themselves. While others reject him for the right reasons—they know he is asking for everything and they are not ready to give everything.


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Dying for Love    Minute Meditations
May the fiery and honey-sweet power of your love, O Lord, wean me from all things under heaven, so that I may die for love of your love, who deigned to die for love of my love. –St. Francis

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Praying Individually    Minute Meditations
Nobody can be holy for you. You can be a part of the most amazing spiritual community ever, but that doesn’t mean you are a follower of Jesus Christ. We need to pray as a community, but we also need to learn how to pray individually.


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Meaningful Prayer    Minute Meditations
The Spirit dwells within us and teaches us how to pray! So call on the Holy Spirit, and pray with Him!

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Invite God Into It    Minute Meditations
Having a good day? Thank God for it. Struggling through a bad day? Invite God into it. Just another “ordinary” day? Find God in it. And—every day—praise God, for life is a gift never to be wasted.


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Right In Front of You    Minute Meditations
If the people of Nazareth taught us anything, it’s that God could be right in front of you and you might not even recognize Him.


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Ultimate Happiness    Minute Meditations
The Savior gives us the power to find our ultimate happiness—our beatitude—in his teaching and in the gift of the Holy Spirit, who helps us live it out. Let’s take a walk down that road.


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God's Name is Sacred    Minute Meditations
To use the name of God is a solemn thing, not to be taken lightly. To invoke the name in a curse against the innocent is to call him who is Justice to be unjust and him who is Life to be death. Scripture is adamant that to do this is an extremely dangerous violation of the covenant.


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Let God Act    Minute Meditations
Sometimes in this life of faith God will remove his blessings from you. But remember that he knows how and when to replace them, either through the ministry of others or by himself.
—François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon

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Obedience    Minute Meditations
I want to do what you ask of me, in the way you ask, for as long as you ask, because you ask it.
—Pope Clement XI


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Perpetual Gift    Minute Meditations
We are so grateful to God for the gift of forgiveness that we never forget its liberating powers and feel a need to share it with others. Forgiving others and ourselves is discovering a gift that truly keeps on giving.


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Take Up the Cross    Minute Meditations
As we enter Holy Week, let us once more resolve to give Christ dominion in our lives. Let us take up the cross he gives us, and confess with all our hearts, minds, and strength that truly this is the Son of God.


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That’s Not Funny    Minute Meditations
You know the funny thing about sin? God doesn’t.


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Alive in Christ    Minute Meditations
Heavenly Father, from the very beginning you planned for us to be obedient, happy children here on earth, and together with you in heaven someday. No matter how many obstacles our willfulness and disobedience put in your path, you continue to show mercy and provide a new way for us to journey back to you, making us alive in Christ.


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Holding Court    Minute Meditations
A parent who rules in favor of a child in a discipline clash with the other parent may score with the child, for the moment, but may not do what’s best for the child.


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Perfect Example    Minute Meditations
I believe the Sisters should continue to lead by serving, giving of themselves as Christ did. They show us the way: Be always little, humble, poor. I hope they continue to show us that simplicity and humility lead to freedom and power.


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 He reached down from heaven and rescued me; he drew me out of deep waters.
— Psalm 18:16  (

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Meeting the Challenge    Minute Meditations
The history of the Church can be charted against the backdrop of evangelization. Down through the past two thousand years, from the time Jesus lived on this earth, the Church has tried to meet the challenge of reaching out to others with the Good News of Jesus Christ.


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Start With God    Minute Meditations
Life’s too short not to tell the people you love how you feel. Say it...and say it often. Oh, and start with God.


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Fearing Sin    Minute Meditations
What did all the saints have in common? They feared sin more than even physical death. Sin is the worst kind of death.


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Act of Forgiveness    Minute Meditations
Forgiveness is a decision, not a feeling. We begin with God’s command, we go through a grieving process if necessary, and when the time is right, we make an act of forgiveness. It is as simple as saying, “I forgive.”


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The Sooner The Better    Minute Meditations
God wants us to be whole and at peace, and he has provided the means. It may take years of prayer and the sacraments, but that shouldn’t deter anyone from beginning as soon as possible.


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Truly a beautiful message. The Love that our Blessed Mother Mary gives us and pours out for us , directly links us to her most Divine Son, Jesus Christ. And in prostrating ourselves to the love of God , we are able to forgive those who trespass us as well as learn to repent for our own personal trespasses.

Blessed Mother, Oh Mother Mary, Mother of Perpetual Help send forth thy love and gentle prayers to us, poor sinners who have recourse to thee.

Blessed Mother of Perpetual Help, whisper to thy divine son Jesus Christ and beg him of our forgiveness. Assist us also, Dearest Mother, in our necessities. We ask this of you and in your divine Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.


Thank You, Dearest Mother. May our requests be answered accordingly to the benefit of our eternal soul.

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Dialogue of Love    Minute Meditations
Prayer isn’t a formula or an empty ritual. It’s a friendship. It’s a relationship. That means it’s a dialogue of love by which people in love talk to each other.


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thanks for this great reminder, hof.  may you have a blessed day.

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Hold Me, O God    Minute Meditations
Loving God, be with me in this time of sadness, pain, and uncertainty. I feel disoriented, and hunger for a time before death transformed my life. Help me to believe that this pain is temporary, and that after darkness, I will find light and peace.

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Divine Mercy    Minute Meditations
In Scripture when Christ tells us about “the unforgivable sin,” it means the sin we don’t ask forgiveness for, that pride is the sin against the Holy Spirit, not allowing God to forgive.


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Excising Sin    Minute Meditations
God loves us too much to pretend our sin isn’t there. Sin is a cancer and Christ the surgeon. True prayer signs the consent form.

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Love Them Anyway    Minute Meditations
Love even the most abandoned: love whatever faith in Christ remains in them: if they have lost this, love their virtues; if these have gone, love the holy likeness they bear, love the blood of Christ through which you trust they are redeemed. —St. Ignatius of Loyola


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Becoming Saints    Minute Meditations
Our flaws are part of his plan to bring forth holiness in us. He calls; we answer. By responding to his call with courage and faith, we can become saints. —Fr. Michael Scanlan, T.O.R.


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Finding God    Minute Meditations
God doesn't abandon people just because an accident happened. He doesn't abandon people who are the victims of poor judgment or of evildoers. He is always there. It's up to us to find him.

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Meaningful Goals    Minute Meditations
The most meaningful goals in life are those that can be accomplished with the help of God's graces. We should use those graces to give us confidence that, with God's guidance and help, our gifts are capable of being developed well beyond our imagined potential.


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Selfless Work    Minute Meditations
I think of all the women religious in the United States who touch countless lives, alleviate the suffering of so many, strive to offer a voice to the voiceless, remember the forgotten, care for those most in need, and focus their lives on the greater good of all God's people, without concern or regard for what they could receive in return.


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If we receive happiness from God, should we not accept sorrow also?
– The Lord gives and the Lord takes away; may his will be done. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

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Aggression, Anger, Avarice, Hatred, all of these are sins and should be repented of. In fact, these sins, if habitual, interferes with God's Grace! This is why everyone, and I mean everyone, should regularly receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

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The Church’s Role    Minute Meditations
“The moment has come to commit all of the Church’s energies to a new evangelization and to the mission ad gentes. No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church, can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.” —Pope John Paul II


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Beacon of Christ    Minute Meditations
On a cold night it’s a good idea to stay near the fire. When our faith cools it’s a better idea to stick to the warmth of Christ’s presence. One of the reasons for adoration of the Eucharist is that the experience fires up our love for Jesus. Instead of being detached and dull Catholics, we are on fire with Christ.

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Making Peace Minute Meditations
We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God. –Thomas Merton

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thank you very much, hof.  igo kaayo ko ani with the way i'm feeling now over my sister's diagnosed breast cancer.  nakahilak ko while meditating on this.  but i assure you those were tears of relief.

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Everlasting Joy    Minute Meditations
He will see us and our hearts will rejoice, and our joy no man shall take from us; for this is the sole reward for those who suffer for God’s sake, to rejoice forever in his sight. —St. Bede the Venerable


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Prayer Is a Gift    Minute Meditations
Prayer doesn’t make God love you more. Sin doesn’t make God love you less. His love is not based on our actions. Prayer improves our ability to receive God’s love. Sin severs the relationship.


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Accepting God’s Answer    Minute Meditations
We often like to claim we don’t know what God wants when, in reality, we do and we just don’t like His answer to our question.


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