Sometimes we get so caught up in lifethat we forget that we don’t always have to be busy.We don’t always need to be checking our emailor rushing to the next…
One day a patient asked Dr. Karl Menninger, the noted American psychiatrist, what he should do if he felt a nervous breakdown coming on. He expected the famous psychiatrist to…
The following list must be carefully followed if you wish to be miserable: How many of the above have helped to make YOU miserable? GOD WORKS THROUGH A RESTED MIND…
Nothing is so strong as gentleness……Nothing so gentle as real strength. The Feast of Saint Joseph today honors a man who never speaks a single recorded word in Scripture —…
The food on my table, the bed where I lie The one special person on whom I rely The lessons I’ve learned over the yearsThe happy endings that bring me…
If you ask people who Saint Patrick was, you’re likely to hear that he was an Irishman who chased the snakes out of Ireland. The real Saint Patrick was not…
Jesus’s relationships with women, as depicted in the Bible, were so special, so different from those of the ordinary men of his time and of other religious leaders. Temple University…
I can’t fathom what it would be like to be born blind….To live my whole life in darkness….To only hear voices and sounds….To never see sunrises or sunsets, flowers, trees,…
When a group of tourists saw a legless war veteran go to the Shrine at Lourdes to bathe in its healing and miraculous waters, they whispered and laughed, “Does he…
In the midst of our Lenten journey, God doesn’t see us as everyone else sees us. People around us may see us as cool, successful, unattractive, popular, old, whatever. It…
I got up early one morning and rushed right into the day,I had so much to accomplish that I didn’t have time to pray. Problems just tumbled about me and…
We all have skepticism in us. Think about these phrases: “Open wide now, this isn’t going to hurt a bit.” “It is easy to assemble. Just follow the directions.” “Please,…
Spring Training for baseball has begun! The great baseball manager Leo Durocher was once asked who was the all-time favorite player he had coached. Lots of people were shocked when…
Once there was a small jazz club in New Orleans. In a corner of that club sat an old dilapidated piano. All of the jazz artists complained about this antiquated…
