About Us

History of The God Minute

The God Minute is a group of Catholic priests, religious and lay people who come together to praise and thank God in a style of prayer that we find beautiful and inspirational. It blends lovely music, scripture, a short reflection and sacred silence into a 10-minute prayer we call The God Minute. It is made available through our app and anywhere you listen to your favorite podcasts so that anyone can join us in beautiful prayer.

"We created The God Minute to give people a resource to help build their relationship with God through beautiful prayer. What we didn’t realize would happen was the wonderful community that came out of it. We are extremely grateful for the support of our ministry and mission from so many people worldwide."

- Fr. Ron Hoye, Vincentian priest and the founder of The God Minute

Fr. Ron's daily ministry is parish missions with the Congregation of the Missions Western Province.

Our Story

Fr. Ron began The God Minute in 2019 at the request of his many parish mission attendees. They were searching for ways to continue the internal fire for a relationship with the Lord in their day-to-day lives. Fr. Ron had an idea and did a lot of research with comparable ministries - Hallow, Pray As You Go, Amen, and even different Bible apps, but none lived up to the idea in his head.

So, what does any adventurous, ambitious human do when met with a challenge - you start one from scratch! The God Minute started as a simple recording and a daily blog post and quickly grew into a website and app with over 18,000 daily listeners, a team of 20+ reflectors and prayer leaders, and an active social media community page. Quite our mustard seed moment!

Our Vincentian Connection

A portrait sketch of St. Vincent de Paul. St. Vincent was the founder of The Congregation of the Mission Western Province, who is the community that The God Minute founder, Fr. Ron Hoye belongs.

Fr. Ron and several members of our team belong to the Vincentian community – The Congregation of the Mission Western Province. Vincent de Paul was ordained a priest in 1600 and began his ministry working with the wealthy, prestigious families in France. After years of serving as household tutor and spiritual director to a wealthy family, he discovered his true calling was ministering to the poor. He devoted his life to prayer, selfless service, and sacramental ministry.

Listening to the prompting of the Holy Spirit, de Paul understood the power of God’s message – to evangelize the poor. He prayed to God for humility, simplicity, and gentleness to carry out his important work with those on the fringes of society: galley slaves, war victims, and the poor. He and his companions formed the Little Company, which was a model for the American seminary now known as the Congregation of the Mission, which was founded in 1835.

Four centuries later, the Vincentian priests and brothers follow his example of holiness and energetic labors, dedicating their lives to prayer, community life, and evangelical service to those most in need of God’s love and mercy.

The Western Province is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri and serves the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, a care facility for senior Vincentians, parishes in Louisiana, Texas, Missouri, Illinois, California, and Alaska, and acts as a mother province to the Vice-Province of Kenya, which grew from a 1981 mission by the Western Province.

Our Team

The God Minute is extremely grateful to our executive team, our prayer leaders, and our spiritual reflectors – without them, our ministry would be nothing.