If a friend gives you a Ferrari…
Once a priest was talking with a young man who was discerning his vocation. He had actually discovered his vocation to the consecrated life, but he was not sure if he was going to follow it or follow his own plan for his life (family, career, and all the things
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If a friend gives you a Ferrari…
Once a priest was talking with a young man who was discerning his vocation. He had actually discovered his vocation to the consecrated life, but he was not sure if he was going to follow it or follow his own plan for his life (family,
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How great is a mother’s love!
While he was a priest, St. Vincent de Paul worked in a high position for the government for many years and one of his tasks
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Mercy kills our selfishness
Once the bishop of Mantua, Giuseppe (Joseph) Sarto, who would later become Pope and Saint Pius X, was publicly slandered by a merchant. More than
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The envious firefly
A firefly lying in a garden, shuddered with envy at the effect of the lights from a nearby Christmas tree and, in a melancholic mood,
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Being apostles
Once I read: “if Jesus had sent his twelve disciples for psychological testing this might well be the reply he would have received: Thank you
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He gave a goal against his team
In a women’s field hockey test match between Argentina and Germany, the Europeans had scored a goal, but the referee did not call it. The
About us...
The main goal of this blog is to help people to live according to the Gospel principles. Those who have had the great grace of reading the Gospel have found that there is no greater preaching than that of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Our Lord taught through parables, proverbs, analogies, etc. in order to attract his listeners and to help them to reflect and convert. As followers of Jesus we try to imitate His example of preaching in order to illustrate the Divine Teaching and make it easier to live out.