Coming home from the mass of the Lord's Supper. Everything seems quiet now. I have walked through the night, praying. A somber atmosphere as I get home - quiet here, too. Now the solemn, quiet time has begun ( Read more... )

Why do so many people seem to have such a problem with humility?
Our society teaches us to be strong and self-confident, but that doesn't mean we cannot also be humble. First of all, what society teaches are not necessarily the best values. Maybe we need to learn to turn the other cheek at least sometimes? Maybe it is not all that bad to be the one ( Read more... )

I remember sins of the past. Some of them grave sins. I realize how I ahve changed. It is like a different person committed them. No, it was me. But somehow not the me I am now ( Read more... )

Again I have Jesus in me. Coming from Palm Sunday mass, still carrying all my own worries and anxieties, I can feel the strength that comes from the Body of Jesus that I have again received. The strength and peace and love that I can again carry out into the world ( Read more... )

Seeing Jesus in other people also means that we take one another seriously. If we open up our hearts to other people and try to see what they want to tell us from their perspective, it is mostly almost impossible not to understand them. Not to want their best ( Read more... )

Friendship is a wonderful gift in life. Having friends, people we can talk to, whom we know understand us, who know us well enough to REALLY understand us - what a blessing ( Read more... )

I don't like to think of anybody as a "hopeless case". Everybody we encounter is a human being, a child of God, and letting somebody fall because we feel ther eis no hope for them - just seems very wrong to me ( Read more... )

"Patience in suffering", the message or fruit of one of the mysteries of the rosary is. It is the mistery of Jesus carrying the cross to Calvary ( Read more... )

Sometimes it takes courage to live our faith. Sometimes people may look at us weird. They may think that somebody who is religious wil l be uptight, conservative, boring... overly righteous. (What is overly righteous? Can we be too good ( Read more... )

What is stress? It usually happens when we feel overwhelmed by what we (think we) have to do. When too many things happen at once, or we think too many thoughts about something; when there doesn't seem to be enough time; when we are afraid ( Read more... )