Minute Meditations

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He is Always in Our Midst   

In His mercy Jesus brings His resurrected victory into time, conquering and reconquering our fickle and wayward hearts. 

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Authentic Love    

Purity of heart and body must be defended because chastity “safeguards” authentic love. 

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Witness Love   

Invite Christ and his angels to witness every moment of your life and every expression of your love. 

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Daily mass   

Daily Mass is for those who have nothing better to do, which means all of us. 

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Comparing Yourself    

When considering your faults and virtues, look carefully at whom you compare yourself to. If you compare yourself with those far from God, you will become more like them. Compare yourself to the saints if you want to be become one. 

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Paths to God    

Every vocation, every path to which Christ calls us, ultimately leads to fulfillment and happiness, because it leads to God, to sharing in God’s own life. 

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Pure Relationship   

If the relationship is based on lust, purity will end it. But if the relationship is based on love, purity will save it. 

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Endurance   

Let us not grow tired of doing good, for in due time we shall reap our harvest, if we do not give up. 

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Children's needs   

The greatest need of your children is to experience the love of their parents for each other. 

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Being Needed   

Being needed is more important than being noticed. Value the time you have in your “hidden life,” regardless of whether or not your family notices your sacrifices. 

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God's Beauty   

Beauty reflects God. When we witness a magnificent sunset or sunrise, view mountains rising majestically against the clear blue Colorado sky or watch the variations of sea foam on the ocean’s weaves, our hearts are lifted toward the Lord. 

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Respond to Grace   

The past has passed; the time for grace is now! Let’s respond to the grace of this moment with the gifts of the Spirit active in our lives, especially with regard to managing our time. 

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Greatest Peace   

The greatest sense of peace will come from living our faith well. When the Prince of Peace rules in our hearts, he reigns in our homes. 

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Confession   

Confession helps us think more clearly about our sins, recognize our need for God’s grace to live in a way that pleases him and strengthen our resolve to resist the temptation to sin. 

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United Love for God   

When you share your spiritual journey with your children, they not only witness your individual love for God but also your united love for him. 

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Prayer Strengthens    

Prayer helps us draw on God’s strength so that we do not enter spiritual conflict relying on ourselves. 

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Open Your Eyes   

The everyday successes and failures of each season of life can be invitations to a deeper relationship with God if we have the eyes to see. 

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United in Love   

Jesus models for us a unity between love of God and love of neighbor that should be the hallmark of our lives as well. 

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Recognizing Jesus 
 
Our time of prayer enables us to put on the mind and heart of Jesus so that we learn to recognize him in the faces and activities of our day. 

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Open your Heart   

As God walks the universe and encounters human souls, a sign hangs at the entrance of every mind, of every heart. Is it “Open” or Closed?” The Lord awaits our decision. 

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Finding My Way Home   

Dear Lord, as long as you are with me in the Where, the How and the Who of my life, I know I will find my way home to You. For You are both my path and my compass. 

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Saving energy

In our own lives today, most frustrations aren't worth our energy. When we avoid strife, it is a mark of honor.

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God is Love   

God is our deepest desire. God creates us out of love, for the purpose of love, as the fulfillment of our love. 

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Finding My Way Home   

Dear Lord, as long as you are with me in the Where, the How and the Who of my life, I know I will find my way home to You. For You are both my path and my compass. 

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Maturing by Enduring   

Stay with the darkness, the emptiness, the confusion, and let it work out its purification and maturation in us. 

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Love is Eternal   

I understood that love comprised all vocations, that love was everything, that it embraced all times and places…in a word, that it was eternal!  -St. Thérèse 

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Lift me, Jesus!   

The elevator which must raise me to heaven is Your arms, O Jesus!  â€"St. Thérèse 

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Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit   

Poverty of spirit paves the way for sanctityâ€"for the kingdom of God within us. 

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Immeasurable Love   

Ah! Give me a thousand hearts to love you. But that is still too little, Jesus, beauty Supreme. Give me your divine heart itself to love you.  â€"St. Thérèse 

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The Compassion of Jesus   

I feel that if I had every imaginable crime on my conscience I should still not lose my confidence; with my heart broken by repentance I should throw myself into the arms of my Savior.  â€"St. Thérèse 

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Love in the Little Things   

There’s only one thing to do here belowâ€"strew before Jesus the flowers of little sacrifices, and win Him with caresses.  â€"St. Thérèse 

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Love God Unconditionally   

We need grace to love God the way he deserves to be loved. This grace comes into our hearts when we ask Jesus to share his heart with us. 

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The God of Our Hearts   

The heart centered in God loves without counting the cost; it loves like Jesus. God comes to us to set our hearts free, to enkindle in us the fire of love. 

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Things happen because we choose to....there maybe regrets but blaming is not an option...we are what we are because we brought ourselves there....we get happy, get sad, but most importantly we learn.

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Near God   

God is very near to those who seek him. You will be surprised at the peace and assurance that come when you follow God’s will. 

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Express Love through Actions   

Hitting people over the head with the words of truth will not convert them. God is love, and He desires that we become good disciples. 

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Draw closer to God   

Remember that the truth is a personâ€"Jesus. Our goal is not just to get good information but to draw closer and closer to Him. Then when we speak, by the power of His Spirit, we can convey the love God has for those who are confused. 

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Salamat kaayo, Manay, sa imong gipang share dari.

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Way sapayan Inday Grace! Makalingaw bitaw noh?  Kining hectic jamo, ang ginagmay nga polong daku ug bilih sa pang adlaw-adlaw!

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Way sapayan Inday Grace! Makalingaw bitaw noh?  Kining hectic jamo, ang ginagmay nga polong daku ug bilih sa pang adlaw-adlaw!

Manay, tranquilizer sa mga tawo na sige lang gaka busy unya stressful ang kinabuhi.

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Exercise your Faith   

In baptism and confirmation you were given many graces: Faith is a huge one, but you have to activate it and use it, or it grows weak for lack of exercise. 

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Pray for Compassion   

Ask Jesus for His heart of compassion even in the face of sin and stubbornness. Only He can change the hearts and minds of those we are trying to reach. 

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God, Give me Patience    

When we get frustrated with people who will not listen, we have to consider what Jesus would doâ€"pray! 

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God's Instruments    

We do not have to spend hours on our knees every day. We simply have to offer our lives as instruments of God. 

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Where God Is   

God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life. 

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Learning   

It is in falling down that we learn almost everything that matters spiritually. 

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Right Direction   

The lives of saints never point to themselves, but always and forever beyond themselves to the One who chose them, uses them and loves them. 

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Biblical Promise   

All is in flux, physically and psychologically, unless we have an Absolute Center, which is exactly what the Bible promises. 

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Spiritual joy

The Lord gives us a supernatural joy which enables us to bear any sorrow or pain and which neither life nor death can take away.

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The Face of God   

God’s face is turned toward us absolutely. It is we who have to learn to return the gaze. 

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Embrace the Mystery   

Learn the mystery of surrender and trust, and then it will be done unto you, through you, with you, in you and very often, in spite of you. 

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The Bottom Line   

There is really only one question of absolute significance in life: Are we going to be saved? Salvation is the bottom line. 

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Just a Glimpse   

If you have loved and been loved in return, you have some idea of what the promise of eternal life is. 

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Lord, it is in suffering that we are purified.
So let us suffer and be purified.

Lord, it is in dying that we are born into eternal life.
May our deaths be filled with holiness

Lord, it is in loving that one is loved,
let us love and learn to love those whom hate us

Lord, it is in forgiving that we are forgiven,
Let us learn to forgive.

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The Bottom Line   

There is really only one question of absolute significance in life: Are we going to be saved? Salvation is the bottom line. 

Amen, Manay Tess.

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God's Mercy   

There is always hope of salvation until a person has finally passed the frontier of death. God predestines no one to hell. 

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Our Compassionate God    

God is full of compassion, always looking for some way to reach the lost and forsaken. 

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Lost Lambs   

Jesus came not to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance. The Good Shepherd comes to seek and to find the lost lambs. 

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A Glimpse of God   

God’s infinite goodness and mercy is found in the fall of the human race. Something made him want to save us. 

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Proof   

The proof of God’s love and compassion is printed with nails in the palms of his only Son, Jesus Christ. 

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Do you realize that as a believer in Jesus, you have a tremendous advantage in life? The Creator of the Universe is not only fighting your battles, but He is lining up the right people, the right breaks, and the right opportunities to move you forward. You may be facing a situation right now that looks like it's never going to turn around, but I believe that you're going to see some changes quicker than you think.

 

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Count on God   

There is very little in prayer that depends on me. All of that depends on God. 

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God does not rejoice in the loss of anyone, but desires that all be saved and restored to fellowship with him. That is why the whole community of heaven rejoices when one sinner is found and restored to fellowship with God. Seekers of the lost are much needed today.

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Don't Stop Praying   

Even when you try to pray and God doesn’t seem to show up, don’t stop praying. 

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Taking Time   

What kind of relationships would you have with people if you never spent any time with them? 

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At Our Side   

Peter needed Jesus to pull him up when he tried walking on water. We may fall as we learn to walk in faith, but Jesus is there to help us up. 

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Family Education   

The family is the great catechism God has given the world. The work of our lifetime is to learn how to read it and then study it prayerfully. 

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It's About Faith   

We need to have faith in the power of Jesus over death. Life and death are in God's loving hands. 

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Our Role   

Our highest role as creatures is to offer worship and to share a oneness with our Creator. 

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It's All About Time   

If we never make the time or take time to be with the Lord, nothing spiritual can happen in our lives. 

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It's All About Time

If we never make the time or take time to be with the Lord, nothing spiritual can happen in our lives.

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Shout it Out!

We cannot be Christians and remain silent or fearful. The message of Christ must be shouted out to others.

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Shout it Out!

We cannot be Christians and remain silent or fearful. The message of Christ must be shouted out to others.

Amen.

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Our Model   

God entered history through a family in order to make family life holy and show us how to live in our homes. 

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Think Young   

One thing that can make us old fast is thinking that we are getting old. 

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Priorities   

If birth is so important that it marks a major touchstone every year, shouldn't our rebirth in Christ at baptism be even more important? 

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God's Covenant With Us  

The Eucharist itself is a renewal of the covenant between God and humanity that draws those who partake of it into the insistent love of Christ and “sets them aflame.”

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God's Covenant With Us  

The Eucharist itself is a renewal of the covenant between God and humanity that draws those who partake of it into the insistent love of Christ and “sets them aflame.”

The Eucharist is Jesus There for Us. The Eucharist is the very miracle of Salvation. It is an act of salvation. When one takes the Eucharist, he takes the living body of Jesus Christ, proclaiming Christ's death on the cross for us. It is an example of Faith not only in words, but faith in action.

The Wine is not just wine, but the actual blood of Jesus Christ. We do this in memory of him, as he commanded us to do so. He is the Bread of Life.

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We Are the Church   

The result of the new covenant that Jesus established through his teaching, his ministry, and the shedding of his blood is the formation of a new peopleâ€"the Church. 

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Share in the Nature of Christ     

With the coming of Jesus Christ, each person has the opportunity to enter into, to accept, and to claim that initial renewalâ€"“putting on” or sharing in the nature of Christâ€"through faith and baptism.

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Blood of the New Covenant   

The Eucharist is a renewal of the new covenant, established by Jesus and sealed with the shedding of his blood (the “blood of the new covenant”). 

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Repentance   

To repent is to acknowledge one’s weakness and one’s failure to live the gospel of Christ fully. 

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Repentance and Renewal are Essential   

For us Catholics, as well as other Christians, the danger of "triumphalism" lurks. It is a false pride based upon our belief that we belong to God’s chosen people of the new covenant and resulting in the idea that we really don’t need repentance and renewal. 

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A Good Confession   

A good confession not only reconciles the individual with God and helps bring peace and order into his or her life but also “prepares the ground,” so to speak, for renewal. 

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Seek Forgiveness in Others   

Recognizing the social nature of sin, Christians also should go to others they have offended to seek reconciliation. A revival of religion may be expected when Christians begin to confess their sins to one another. 

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Faithfulness to God   

Dear Lord, help us to worry not so much about being successful for you but about being faithful to you. 

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True to Him   

Lord, help us to remember the pearl of great price your death on the cross has won for us, and help us to always be true to you. 

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Lord, Help Me in My Daily Struggles   

Lord, help me to vanquish my quick-trigger impatience, to contain my often unhealthy curiosity and my inordinately unbridled imagination, my readiness to speak badly of others, and pull down the walls of my pride and haughtiness. 

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Unashamed of God   

Dear God, how often we are tempted to push you into the background because we’re afraid of standing out in a crowd, afraid of how it will look. And yet what opportunities to bring people to you could be had if only we would be bold. 

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The Gift of Reconciliation    

Heavenly Father, we thank you for the gift of the sacrament of reconciliation, where the redemption Jesus Christ won on the cross is applied to our personal sins. 

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Loving Sacrifice    

Lord Jesus, help us to love all our brothers and sisters for love of you, to serve them for love of you, and if it be your holy will, to stand ready to die for them for love of you. Amen.

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Stay Focused on God   

Dear Lord, help us to stay focused on you, to forgive those who sin against us, to desire the best for them, and to have hope for your triumph over sin and death

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Lessons in Suffering   

In suffering we are tempted to lose hope and faith in the Lord’s love and in His desire for our eternal life with Him. But that same suffering can teach us, if we let it, to turn to God and place our hope and trust in Him.

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He Holds You   

I do not pray that you may be delivered from your pains, but I pray earnestly to God that He would give you strength and patience to bear them as long as He pleases. 

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Healing of the Memories   

The truth is that we cannot remain prisoners of the past; people need a sort of “healing of the memories” so that past evils will not come back again. 

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Let Go and Let God   

It is not God’s will that we should grieve and sorrow over our present sufferings, but rather that we should leave them at once and keep ourselves in his everlasting joy. 

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God Alone Suffices   

Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you. Though all things pass, God does not change. Patience wins all things. But he lacks nothing who possesses God, for God alone suffices. 

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The Virtue of the Cross    

In the Cross is strength of mind, joy of spirit, height of virtue, full perfection of all holiness. And there is no help for the soul or hope of everlasting life save through the virtue of the Cross. 

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The House of Love   

The house of love is not simply a place in the afterlife, a place in heaven beyond this world. Jesus offers us this house right in the midst of our anxious world. 

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The Hope in Our Hearts   

We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures; we are the sum of the Father’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of his Son.