The Man Who Hunted Vipers
There was once a man who made his living hunting vipers and selling them to a specialist who used their venom for medicinal purposes. One day, he came across a place teeming with poisonous vipers and began collecting them. He did not have time to return to the town to
The Man Who Hunted Vipers
There was once a man who made his living hunting vipers and selling them to a specialist who used their venom for medicinal purposes. One day, he came across a place teeming with poisonous vipers and began collecting them. He did not have time to
Fable of the Two Mice and the Bucket of Milk
Two mice fell into a bucket of milk. The first mouse, disillusioned and lazy, let himself go and gave up. The second did not lose
It Has Been Thrown onto the Sponge
There is an expression that was used by the Romans, “to give it the sponge,” which meant “to erase.” In those times, a kind of
A Treatise on Doctrine in Few Words
A priest recounts that once a peasant from Castilla with whom he had struck up a conversation said to him: “Father, I have a treatise
I Will Not Do This Work
A German sculptor named Theodore Wilhelm Archtermann (1799–1984) who moved to Rome in 1839, was commissioned to create a grandiose monument by an Italian committee.
Give to God and Caesar What Belongs to Each One
St. Francis of Paola was an Italian mendicant friar and the founder of the Roman Catholic Order of Minims. His fame of sanctity was well-known
Don Quixote and Fear
“It seems to me, Sancho, that you are very afraid,” said Don Quixote. “Indeed, I am,” replied Sancho, “but how do you notice it now
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.