Daily Meditation for January 26, 2026
Down is easier than up. Maybe that’s because we’re bodily creatures obedient to the pull of Earth’s gravity. We also feel the pull of emotional and spiritual gravity. Complacency is […]
Entries by Amanda Hackett
Daily Meditation for January 23, 2026
Here is a wisdom statement from the Buddhist tradition: “Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find […]
Daily Meditation for January 22, 2026
If we stop and think of all that God has given us in our lifetime, especially if we do this seriously, we will be amazed. How can God love us […]
Daily Meditation for January 21, 2026
Now that the hustle and bustle of Christmas is over, we have a few weeks of quiet – ordinary – time before we begin the season of Lent. These days […]
Karen Streveler, OSB
Karen Streveler, OSB Saint Benedict’s Monastery St. Joseph, Minn. April 28, 1951 – January 20, 2026 The Eucharist of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, January […]
Daily Meditation for January 20, 2026
Have you ever felt overwhelmed and helpless by the pain that you see around you? Sometimes this pain is a result of physical illness or of an accident. At other […]
Daily Meditation for January 19, 2026
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a devout Baptist pastor, became a civil rights activist, humanitarian and leader in the African-American Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. He is best known […]
Daily Meditation for January 16, 2026
Christmas is over. The nights are long. We are in the liturgical season of Ordinary Time and that can feel like a rather dreary “between time.” Yet, there is a […]
Daily Meditation for January 15, 2026
At the Name of Jesus … the festivities of the Christmas celebration may seem to be a bit removed from our memories as we move into the later part of […]
Daily Meditation for January 14, 2026
The Dalai Lama teaches, “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” What exactly is compassion? Wikipedia defines it as “a […]
