When the Sound Barrier Was Broken
Charles "Chuck" Yeager, after entering the United States Air Force pilot training school, had an extensive professional career comprising several important moments. Perhaps the most important, or at least the one that made him famous, happened on October 14, 1947. That day, while piloting the Bell X-1 aircraft, which he
When the Sound Barrier Was Broken
Charles “Chuck” Yeager, after entering the United States Air Force pilot training school, had an extensive professional career comprising several important moments. Perhaps the most important, or at least the one that made him famous, happened on October 14, 1947. That day, while piloting the
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
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
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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.