Once, as a woman walked with her son in her arms a voice spoke to her. The voice came from a cave and said: you can enter and take all you want, but you should not forget the principal thing and remember that after you exit, the door will be closed forever. The woman entered […]
Once an unbelieving farmer (he was baptized catholic, but he did not believe in Jesus) stayed home on Christmas Eve since the weather was terrible that day, as it had been snowing the whole day. It was the afternoon, and he was warm in his living room sitting in front of his fireplace, when he
There were two friends and one had good health. He was a sporty man, and he always tried to be a physically active person. His friend did not have good health and he used that as his excuse to be lazy. He did not like sports and although his friends always insisted that he should
An artist painted an interesting painting of a young person in front of a board on which he had written a several zeros, 12 zeros more or less, one after the other. At his side is an angel who is writing the number 1 at the beginning of the zeros, transforming them into a trillion.
In the Church of St. Louis of France there is a picture painted by the famous painter Caravaggio called the conversion of St. Matthew. In you see St. Matthew with other people counting money and our Lord Jesus Christ who is entering the scene and pointing to St. Matthew saying “follow me.” I simply wanted
The former President of the United States, Republican George Bush, once referred to an old memory of his trips to Moscow. “I want to tell you an anecdote I witnessed many years ago, when I was attending the funeral for Soviet leader Brezhnev. The ceremony was being conducted with such military precision that there was
Once a senator was invited to receive a warship that had returned from a mission. The senator went with his wife and they entered the ship and were given a guided tour. After the tour the senator’s wife began to praise the cleanliness of the ship. The officer who was giving the tour replied: “Mrs.,
Once I read this: if a child receives a gift in the presence of his mother, if his mother cares about the education of her child, she would immediately ask him: “what should you say?” If her child is an educated child, he would immediately answer: “thank you.” And the reflection of the author of
Suffering from terminal spinal cancer at the age of 47, former North Carolina State basketball coach Jim Valvano spoke with a reporter earlier this year. He looked back on his life and told a story about himself as a 23-year-old coach of a small college team. “Why is winning so important to you?” the players
Once a bishop said that he received a letter from a priest who was critical of his own seminary formation. In that letter he said that all through his years of preparation for priesthood he was often asked, “Are you happy?” “Are you maturing?” “Are you open?” “How are your grades?” But never once, did
